Word: afterthought
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...Putnam seems to have come into moneymaking as an afterthought. At Harvard, where he wore the number 54 jersey on Eliot House's intramural football team and yukked it up with the Lampoon, Putnam majored in biochemistry...
...roles had dried up as the active people started to break into the parallel Harvard groups (if I had come five years earlier I would have probably been happy to write for the Radcliffe News). From the faculty's point of view we were an able, but sometimes inconvenient afterthought. As woman students we had not been able to improve things for ourselves because we lacked leadership against the immense Harvard bureaucracy. Any triumphs we had achieved, whether academically or extra-curricular, had come to us only with that extra push. Our close friendships sustained us through those four years...
Robin Williams, who seems to have absorbed something of the Russian soul while acquiring a persuasive Russian accent, is excellent. He provides all the sweetness any picture needs. One keeps hoping Mazursky and Co-Scenarist Leon Capetanos will introduce some contrasting flavors. Until Vladimir encounters some afterthought muggers, everyone he meets is unfailingly helpful and kind; he has no difficulty finding jobs, an apartment, friends of both sexes. Yet every fairy tale needs to have a wicked witch; her broomstick is always useful as a lever to pry us upright in our seats and as a goad to keep...
Footloose is probably the most sophisticated example yet of the prominent role that musical sound tracks are playing in the marketing of Hollywood movies. Music used to be merely an afterthought or, at best, a happy byproduct of the movie. But the success of Saturday Night Fever in 1977, with its hit Bee Gees score, taught Hollywood a valuable lesson: rock sound tracks can be not only big sellers but big promotional tools for the films they embellish. The lesson was resoundingly driven home with last year's Flashdance, whose album (4.9 million copies sold...
...story. Marcus' death in battle is not as moving as it should be, for instance, because the character is not introduced, except by reference, until well into the second act. And the happy-end romance between his sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and a war buddy is an emotional afterthought. Further, the libretto is often awkwardly phrased and rhymed: "Don't tell me your love/ Has been killed off by time./ It can still be fulfilled,/ Fulfilled by mine...