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Pinter explores how the petty ambitions of each are thwarted by the fumbled intentions of the others. Davies, the old man, wants to walk across London to pick up the papers he left with a friend . . . twenty years before. Aston, the older brother and a former mental patient, wants to build a tool shed. Mick wants to make the building into handsome, profitable flats. None of the three succeed. The old man doesn't get along and is turned...
...Hawthorne who snickered at the group. "I like showing them that we've got a lot of cash," he says. "When I visit my mother there, I drive my Ferrari down Hawthorne Boulevard, go home, drive the Cobra along the same street, and do the same thing with the Aston-Martin and my brother's old T-Bird." Like the others, he owns his own home in Beverly Hills. He and his brothers replaced the old home in Hawthorne with a "mansion for mother. It's sort of like a neighborhood memorial to us," Dennis says...
Every thriller must, to some extent, be unreal. The more unreal the film, the more it depends on extrinsic elements--an Aston-Martin, an industrial laser--for thrills. We know that James Bond will vanquish the villain and get the girl, but we want to see how he does it. The great thrillers, however, take believable, though not necessarily ordinary, men and women and put them in unusual situations. There should be room for dramatic subtlety and technical invention, as well as for excitement, as in a film like The Third...
...jungle cries was nothing compared to an all-out battle royal between the Marine Commandos' motorcycle team and that movie prop of the century, James Bond's well-armed Aston Martin DB5. The Bondmobile, piloted by a U.S. racing driver, cornered so closely that it fluttered the bunting in front of the box seats and left tire rubber all over the arena-which was also littered with cartridge shells from the mock...
...fact, the Beatles have no respect for anything, not for Beethoven or for James Bond. Roger the tiger responds favorably only to the chorale from Beethoven's Ninth, so when Ringo is trapped with Roger, Lennon yells, "Ringo, sing famous Beethoven's famous Ninth Symphony." Bond's deadly Aston-Martin becomes a Mr. Whippy truck that leaves a trail of thumbtacks, and Alligator's camouflaged House of Parliament--a parody of a parody--becomes the Kaili's sacrificial temple, brought from the Orient to Bermuda...