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...answer Travis Kavulla’s call for a seminar on the Danish cartoons (“Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these images for Muslims across the globe. As he correctly states, the offensive images...
...Chicago” and “Moulin Rouge” were successes because they went beyond the limitations of a stage production. In “The Producers,” a static camera, minimal editing and washed-out lighting give the impression of a banal sitcom. The cast also fails to adapt stage acting to film acting—Broderick in particular. Huge over-the-top motions and facial expressions are necessary to convey the emotion onstage; but film acting, even in a Mel Brooks film, should be more subdued. Everyone in the cast is so hyped...
...violence. However, the unadulterated gore and violence does more to repulse the viewer than draw him or her into the film. Wherever Charlie looks (bathroom stalls, lounge doors, shipping trucks), he sees the saying “As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls.” The banal idiom represents so much of what the audience will find wrong with this movie: Ramis tries to make a point, but never explains its meaning, and the joke isn’t funny enough to keep repeating. Hopefully, this will flop and Ramis will learn to refuse scripts so far below...
...headband) while the silhouettes of whatever long-haired sell-outs she co-opted into her band banged on see-through instruments. It’s all very mod, minus any pretense of legitimacy.The bridge signals a radical change in tone. The three chords employed throughout (bold minimalist statement or banal pop trash?) suddenly turn minor, and Hilary starts yelling “Away! Away!” for no discernible reason. To add visual insult to aural injury, all of this takes place while Hilary dances in front of a shadow puppet of a speedometer.This disturbing interlude is resolved...
Those who envy to enter the final club fray should take heart. If the banal jabbering of the Isis’ members is any indication of the whole, then the organizations’ purported exclusivity is an imagined concept...