Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watson cited Janus's background in dealing with both undergraduates and alumni as a major factor in his choice...
...more imagination on Schlesinger's part. He might have forsaken the gaudy, lush colors with which he chose to evoke Hollywood for something simpler, more barren, might even have filmed it in black and white, thereby allowing his excellent cast to draw their weird, surrcal characters against a stark background instead of having them clash confusingly with their environment. He would have done well to have completely eliminated Tod and had more confidence in his own cinematographic eye to paint the spectacle...
...conclusion. They are simply brought to an abrupt end when a police car rolls up and the entire Round Table is rounded up. The knights are charged with being accessories to the murder of the historian who popped up midway in the movie - BBC style - to supply some useless background on the traditions of medieval romance. The intervention of the bobbies also leads to the fine sight of a fully armored knight spread-eagled against the squad car and being patted down for concealed weapons...
...Something Completely Different was extremely funny, leaping from skit to skit without worrying much about continuity. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, by contrast, has a single unified story line about a deadpan King Arthur searching for, well, the Holy Grail. Instead of being simply a background for a series of more or less independent routines, the Arthurian motif strangles the jokes...
Would you discuss your family background and where the members of your family...