Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Absent-Minded Professor. Walt Disney's wacky science-fiction farce about Neddie the Nut and his fabulous flubber...
...Absent-Minded Professor. Walt Disney's wacky science-fiction farce about Neddie the Nut and his fabulous flubber...
...Odysseus, lord of Ithaca, to be reunited with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. On the way, he and his men suffered such ordeals as imprisonment by brutish cannibal giants, shipwreck, seduction, famine and feast. Meanwhile, back at the palace, a half-hundred soft civilians squatted on the absent lord's domain, eating and drinking their heads off, seducing the maidservants, insulting the stripling heir, and competing for the honor of consoling the presumed widow. The whole bloody and wonderful business ends when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, first humiliates the suitors in a contest at archery, then slaughters...
Director Francois Truffaut, unlike Ingmar Bergman, does not resort to the surrealistic and the bizarre in emphasizing his meaning. The unfortunate is treated with naive gentleness and the psychological and symbolic intricacies that one comes to expect in director-dominated films is notably absent. Pictorial eloquence is achieved through simplicity and realism rather than stagey effects...
...Absent-Minded Professor. Walt Disney, who went delightfully to the dogs with 101 Dalmatians, scores again with a wacky science-fiction farce about Neddie the Nut and his fabulous flubber...