Word: wildness
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...first minutes of Wong Kar-wai's 1990 Days of Being Wild, Leslie Cheung strikes up a chat with Maggie Cheung. She's lovely and lonely; he's smoldering and supercool. Out of the blue, he purrs a boast to Maggie: "You'll see me in your dreams tonight." Next day he comes by again, and she brags that she didn't dream of him. "Of course," he replies with practiced confidence, "you couldn't sleep...
...under his spell. Typically, they love him and he leaves them; he must have said, "I don't love you" more times than anyone else in movies. But he doesn't just mesmerize the camera; he works subtle wonders before it. He glamorizes a scene in Days of Being Wild just by appraising himself in a full-length mirror while doing an expert cha-cha. And then, in unforgiving closeup, without moving a muscle, he will somehow change emotional temperature. You can see feelings rise in him like a blush or a bruise...
...play whose description is “a sort of love story with gun and whatnot” is sure to provide a wild ride. The first scenes of Odeon (written and directed by James A. Carmichael ’01), are disorienting. For several minutes the audience sits in darkness listening to a techno-mix of answering machine messages. Following this is the illumination of a single neon light proclaiming that it is “open”—whatever “it” is. In the meager neon light are three simultaneous scenes...
...their freedom to roam yet restrained emotions and their frontier mentality. Cowboys dance randomly from screen to screen, then simply stare, then start swimming nude, then dance again—this cycle continues. The cyclical features of both the cowboys and their backdrop distort the perceptions of freedom and wild exploration that are naturally attached to these “frontiersmen...
...Reed didn't fare much better. He was able to get out of the inning but began to fall apart in the third, allowing two consecutive singles and a wild pitch that allowed a run to cross the plate. Sophomore Madhu Satyanarayana came in to replace Reed and fired one past Hopps two batters in. Satyanarayana eventually settled in and pitched the duration of the seven-inning game, allowing only one additional run in the sixth...