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...landscapes and come to recognize nuances of plot and characterization, the film fails to achieve the goal which justified its Super-Panavision scale: the creation of a paradigmatic tale recounting the fall of the twentieth-century Westerner before self-sufficient, tribal communities. Though David Lean's and screenwriter Robert Bolt's goal may seem portentously abstract, that goal is not achieved precisely because the creators exclude too vast a body of particular information...
...Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons...
...least for awhile, Mailer is run-in' scared. And as he runs, as he chases about "the fields of flesh and cunt," he picks up every nut and bolt he finds and throws it at us as a warning. Beware the metal fingers of the hand of technology, he insists. Then be conjures up ferocious pictures of abortions and extra-uterine gestation and operations that would give men vaginas. Beware he antiseptic, rubber-coated hand, he wails...
...mystery may now be solved. Physicist Edward Pierce reported to a recent conference on lightning and static electricity in San Diego that spraying sea water into holds can generate static electricity at the same rate as a summer thunderstorm. Though the resulting spark would be no lightning bolt, it could touch off a highly explosive mixture of air and oil vapors...
...Besides, Bolt and Lean wrote Ryan's Daughter as they did because that's how to make it pay its way. If, in spite of its maladresse, Ryan's Daughter does make money, it will be because of its forebears in film and fiction. They taught its audience that the aristocratic sensibilities and wealthy surroundings which Ryan's Daughter's characters flaunt are the best things life has to offer. Here even something so apparently neutral as the film's spectacular cinematography shows its true reactionary colors...