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Stapleton goes on the road neither as a stump preacher nor as a faith healer dispensing supposedly miraculous cures. Rather, she seeks to remove crippling emotional scars through a blend of inspiration and psychological methods she learned while in group therapy herself. Coaxing people to relive harmful childhood memories through "guided daydreams," Stapleton then asks them to bring Jesus into the imaginary scenes. When this is done, she says, love and forgiveness neutralize emotional damage...
...more than anything else," sighs Nixon. "Here, everything is related to the campaign; a lot of things are halfway related, things I wouldn't do if I weren't working on he campaign, like attending city council meetings to hear the opposition. Personal life and campaign work tend to blend together...
...picture does not quite make it. It is impossible to understand what created the strange, hilarious blend of cupidity, cowardice and braggadocio that was Fields and that made him an immortal parody of conventional American male values. The forces that formed him are lost in the dark reaches of a youth he tried not merely to hide but to falsify in order to mislead would-be inquirers. By the time the movie takes up his story, there is nothing to be learned about Fields' past that would be helpful in explaining what one cares about, which is his unique...
...Redford chose the basic elements that compose the movie package and is therefore responsible not only for most of the problems the movie encountered in production, but for the solutions that had to be devised for them; it is Redford's sensibility?not deep, but interestingly complex in its blend of coolness and caring?that is clearly reflected in the finished film...
Since faith in our age must be entertaining, it wears in Godspell all the trappings of musical farce, with the comic acting-out of Christian parables alternating with a lively rock and gospel-inspired score. The resultant blend is hardly the ultimate in sophistication--in this version of the Christian myth, the plot is stylized and the characterizations, save for Jesus, nearly non-existent...