Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANCIENT GREEK DRAMATIST, the spoken word was a new-found tool with which images could be sculpted, ideas persuasively conveyed, and emotions rendered with vivid eloquence; to the visually-oriented modern film-maker, it is a pain in the ass. In movie versions of great poetic dramas, nervous directors often move their cameras too much, nor enough, or at the wrong times, and the result is that visual and verbal elements constantly elbow each other aside, yielding neither great drama nor great film, but a tentative mess with little emotional force of its own. It is highly significant that perhaps...
...kind of sensuous enjoyment of the grotesque. At the film's end, scenes that made the audience shudder aloud in the opening few minutes are repeated; and now they seem commonplace, even acceptable, for the film had had far more brutal moments. At times, Bertolucci's love for vivid detail and for visual lushness results in scenes of great beauty--a bride galloping on a white horse through the mist and poplar trees, a small boy playing in the river, a group of peasant women resisting the landlords against a red sunset. But just as often, Bertolucci also gives...
...looked like Clark Gable left out too long in the sun. He has also been compared to a Japanese bonsai tree, squat and gnarled, but stubbornly rooted to his little piece of rocky soil The images Charles Bronson conjures up are not always graceful or flattering. But they are vivid, just as Bronson himself can be when he is allowed to live-acting is not quite the right word-in a strong action movie, like Hard Times or Red Sun. Rough-and-ready films like these have made Bronson, after an early career strikingly similar to Eastwood...
...says, are "generally very poor at swearing. They just don't know how to do it, and usually fall back on the same 24 words or so." What talent there is in the U.S. apparently is found in rural areas and the Deep South. "There you get concrete vivid images that come out of a strong oral tradition-Billy Carter is a good example. City dwellers' vocabularies are very anemic...
...sins. Of the two versions of the opera that exist today, Levine has wisely chosen the revision Wagner made for the Paris premiere in 1861. By that time Wagner had written Tristan and was a much more sophisticated composer than he had been in 1845. The expanded bacchanal contains vivid writing, all right, but it is gripping stuff. The trimming back of the song competition in Act II?a bore in the original?is Wagner at his most judicious and, from the audience's point of view, kindest...