Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another chief challenge of the production is the quick, stop-and-go language and the equally rapid change of tactics behind each line. Glengarry Glen Ross follows in the playwright's tradition of plays such as Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Buffalo, famous for the fast-paced, in-your-face language that Mamet prefers to call "poetry" rather than realism. Ruiz directs his cast according to Mamet's concept of "practical aesthetics," which emphasizes intention and reaction. The actor's mind must work quickly, switching from one tactic to another in order to get what...
...paranoia, sci-fi conspiracies and--gasp!--a shortage of champagne? Movies that hype the end of the century, the end of the world? They're nowhere to be found. Too short a shelf-life, the executives claimed. So instead of continuing the postmodern trend launched by Run Lola Run, American Beauty and Being John Malkovich earlier this year, we're getting epic fluff--the annual flurry of "Oscar-bait...
...sends him back to prison. Upon release, he becomes a famous boxer but is framed by Depalowski again, this time for killing three white people in a bar. He proceeds to spend the next 19 years in prison. So this reviewer sits back and waits for a movie about American racial politics to unfold. But wait, suddenly the movie turns into a lush exposition on the joys of boxing, and a long narrative with lovingly trained camera angles on Denzel Washington's bare body results. The movie, based on Rubin Carter's autobiography, The 16th Round, now seems to join...
...maybe The Hurricane is a boxing movie. Or maybe, as this reviewer starts to note with some dread, it is something else altogether: a critique of the American judicial system even up to the 1990's, where the hand-in-hand complicity of police and the justice system prevents Carter's release from prison in order to cover up police corruption in New Jersey. With dizzying rapidity, Jewison now whips up righteous lawyers who passionately rail against the judicial system as well as shady police officers who threaten the three Canadians who decide to rally to Carter's cause...
...with delight, there's a moment of suspense before you realize that a chorus of ragged Irish immigrants isn't actually going to line up behind him and start singing "America, the Beautiful." This scene is a far cry from the real ending--in which Frank sets foot on American land and promptly beds down a Poughkeepsie housewife...