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...monologues that span pages; metaphors mutate from the fantastical to the grotesque; the narrator’s personality (in Bolaño’s notes, he says Arturo Belano is the narrator) and the seemingly irrelevant details that embellish individual plotlines emerge from nowhere and are cast off almost as quickly; “He said his name was Harry Magaña, or at least that’s how he wrote it, but he pronounced it Magana, so that when he said it you heard Macgana, as if the self-sucking faggot was of Scottish descent...
...been deeply moralizing—whether on the resilience of family or the fidelity of close friendship—but here he trivializes Fox’s recklessness. The casual way that he endangers and deceives everyone in the film, or how he neglects his own son to an almost condemnable degree, is never answered for. Instead, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”—dramatically revised from Dahl’s book—ends ambiguously, with its characters unchanged and the danger yet present. More puzzling than it is substantial, it doesn?...
...Clooney is the latest in a line of charismatic paterfamilias—common in the director’s films—whose hubris outstrips any thought of the well-being of those around him. Fox steals, sabotages, and generally goads the farmers into hunting him and his kin almost to the point of extinction, the reason for which never becomes totally clear. “I’m a wild animal,” he tells his wife and the audience. But that never sits quite right...
...very bizarre musical, and I liked the idea of a show that functions on many levels,” says Walter B. Klyce ’10, who plays Bat Boy. “On the one hand, it’s almost Shakespearean in scope, with a misshapen tragic hero, a dysfunctional family, a lot of blood and guts, and general disorder in the Great Chain of Being. But at the same time, it’s very funny and self-referential, often poking fun at itself or interrupting serious moments with bits of irreverent humor...
It’s been almost a decade since the first Pumpkins break-up, and even longer since most fans gave up on them, yet somehow the original Pumpkins keep showing up in the news. Here are Corgan and Co.’s five shining moments...