Word: badham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grand Tour, the French officials who ran Napoleon's kingdom in Italy, his fellow expatriate artists--with stylish brio and steely exactness. It is fascinating to see him shifting through different levels of notation--for example, between the subtle, continuous modeling of the face of Mrs. Charles Badham (1816) and the brisker, more linear treatment of her shawl and clothes, and the subtle ghost traces of Roman architecture behind her. Nobody understood this medium better than Ingres, and the show contains some of the most exquisite pencil drawings ever made...
...going to suffer is bad reviews and, conceivably, a drop in his asking price. Even so, the evidence suggests that Depp is a man who comes into sharp focus and, more important, attains full life only when he loses himself in a role. The first time director John Badham met the actor he intended to cast in his thriller Nick of Time, he did not recognize him. "He looked like one of those Identi-Kit police drawings," he says, a rough sketch waiting to be rounded out and colored in by his next role...
...wisdom, which insists that an actor must assert at least some aspect of his nature that the audience can identify and cling to as he moves from picture to picture. Scissorhands proved to Depp that he could work in his own way. "He transforms himself into the character," says Badham. "He's not going to do what some actors do, and transform the character into themselves...
...hints of Depp's other main line, which consists of making something quite hypnotic out of a passivity enlivened by nothing more than watchful alertness. He used this strand in his oddly matched pair of accountants, one of whom is drawn against his will into an assassination plot in Badham's Nick of Time, while the other is bedeviled by various personifications of frontier mythology in Jim Jarmusch's shaggy, satirical western, Dead...
...people who hate subtitles in on the fun? Bridget Fonda is a sort of Dirty Harriet, a reprieved murderer turned into an elegant assassin by a mysterious government agency. She and her handler (Gabriel Byrne) fall into unconsummated love. She sublimates with gunplay while growing wistful for normality. John Badham's film seems to have more firepower and slightly softer edges than the original. But the possibly liberating subtext, that a woman is entitled to be sexy and violent just like a male action star, is intact -- and well played by Fonda...