Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years of blindness only to witness a murder, In a new twist on the "blind-women erotic thriller," hallucinations plague Emma as a result of the surgery. Emma's eyes and brain, so unused to processing sight, replay images long after she has actually seen them. Director Apted and script writer Dana Stevens milk this replay mechanism dry in the name of frightening their audience, The only images that pop up on emma are horrible ones...
...acting in the "Getaway" is not merely mediocre--it's just plain bad. This is probably because the script is so overwrought with cliches that the criminals are laughable. Benyon's badguy persona is so unconvincing that every once in a while I expected Benyon to fall out of character, turn to the audience and say "Just kidding." But this is not "Wayne's World"--the "Getaway's is not pretending to be stupid--so that never actually happens. Instead, Benyon's body just gets chucked in a well by his bodyguards, after they find him quite dead...
...review the Pudding, then, you've go to take it for what it is. So: are the puns bad enough? In a word, yes. Are "the anachronisms fitting enough? "Is the Pope gonna be Catholic?" Are the vamps vamp enough? They do their high heels proud. Is the script meta enough? it you ask me, there's no such thing as too much meta. And my opinion counts, since "I'm the reviewer...
Ryder, in turn, is lucky with both script and direction. The former is by Helen Childress, 23, who not only has a good ear for the sound of her contemporaries but also knows how to shape it into dialogue that is pointed and full of unforced observations. Director Ben Stiller keeps things crisp, no small matter in a movie that features a fair amount of aimless activity and just plain lying around. The latter takes place in the "maxipad" Lelaina shares with Vickie (Janeane Garofalo), who sometimes imagines her own funeral as a scene from Melrose Place ("chokers and halter...
...Office for the Arts and the Undergraduate Council. Whether or not AFARM is highly politicized is irrelevant; both the Perspective and the Salient, two political publications, received Council funding as fledgling organizations. Also, Lat's question, "Should a group whose idea of 'art' is a really bad play script about gay rights receive money from the Office for the Arts?" is strange. I assume he is referring to AFARM's piece in HQ, "Sugar Daddy Memoirs From the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism " (HQ, Dec., 1993). While it is sophisticated and difficult, I would hardly...