Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oedipus Rex. By Sophocles. If you thought you knew this script, think again. Immerse yourself in Oedipus and jocasta's surreal and supernatural world and feel their fates unfold. Sound, light and movement transform this classical piece into a frightening and gripping saga of two destinies. Loeb EX, 7:30 p.m. Free...
...lawman Clint Eastwood is riding in a vehicle needed for President Kennedy's visit to Dallas. At first this looks like the convergence of two recent strains of Hollywood retro-history: JFK in the Line of Fire. But A Perfect World, which Eastwood directed from John Lee Hancock's script, is not another dark fable about Camelot. The stage is smaller here, the concerns personal rather than political. This is an old- fashioned, nicely spun-out, two-handed character drama. It just takes the film a while to reveal who its main players are and how ambitious its agenda...
...joke, a completely penetrable ruse. Curiously enough, what's really unpersuasive about Mrs. Doubtfire -- not to say draggy -- is its nondrag sequences. The children are goody-goodies, without mischief or quirks, and their father's relationship with them is unclouded by even minor impatience, let alone major outrage. The script, by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon, presents ideal fatherhood as a form of saintliness...
Director Mike Leigh, a veteran of TV, stage and movies, works idiosyncratically, letting plot and character evolve from improvisations and brainstorming sessions with his cast. Over a period of weeks, a taut shooting script emerges. The result is depressing and uncompromising. In Britain Naked's unredeemed hostility is straining the loyalty of Leigh's many admirers. In Cannes, however, the film won him the Best Director award this year, and David Thewlis, who is brilliant as rotten Johnny, was named Best Actor. Life for Leigh's lower-class mates is nasty and brutish; women are doormats and men are misogynists...
Only two thespians save this horrible script. As Cardinal Richelieu, Tim Curry actually pulls off his lines sometimes. When he orders to death a poor man, guilty of stealing to feed his family, his reasoning of "One less mouth to feed" does send shivers down one's spine. And as Porthos, Oliver Platt is so infectuously jolly and impish in places that we cannot help but giggle at idiotic exchanges such...