Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school and college, working in a slag mill, brushing up (almost fatally) against old American wealth, articulating his fellow Slavs' ardor for their adopted country. All three boys have Georgia (Jodi Thelen) on their minds-a willfully free-spirited girl, naive and narcissistic, who thinks herself the avatar of Isadora Duncan and lopes through the '60s in search of a style. Four Friends proceeds in the same manner. As one character forlornly notes: "The excess of all this is a little staggering...
...necromancer - or an ironic realist. Mer lin's time has come again in the post-Christian 20th century; it is fitting, then, that Williamson expresses both the juicy effluence of hoary ham acting and the quizzical underplaying of the Method. His Merlin is also a perfect avatar of the sorcerer behind the camera. Love Excalibur or hate it, but give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie can dare to trip over its pretensions- and still fly. -By Richard Corliss
...corridas of power, sniffing for the blood of old enemies. Young Eva told a colleague she wanted to play the great ladies of history: Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Lucrezia Borgia. Her wish was her destiny and her doom. Fate and a will of steel cast her as the avatar of all these women, and when she died her grieving lover was the nation...
...pioneered the modern horror trend 20 years ago by taking a bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife at the ready-she must have a logical reason. She does: to act as avatar of the movie audience's delicious vulnerability. Also to reap big bucks for the merchants of low-budget menace who have revamped an honorable film formula...