Word: boredoms
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...surcease. Leaden skies poured rain and snow almost every day of the company's three-month stay in Poland. "I went in there thinking you separate work from life," says Davidtz. "It's the first time that didn't happen." The goofing around that usually makes the boredom and hardships of difficult movie locations bearable was not available to this company. "The ghosts were on the set every day in their millions," says Kingsley. As Spielberg recalls, "There was no break in the tension. Nobody felt there was any room for levity," and people were always "breaking down or cracking...
...political problem to be defused. His only visible ideology was a basic anticommunism. Some of the people close to Kennedy thought "he felt almost nothing but tried to figure out everything." He was, Reeves writes, an impatient man who lived as if his life "were a race against boredom...
...with cheap ties and constant reminders to feed the fish. As Dennis settles into his analyst's office, saying, "I remember when I was in the womb...," Dr. Schooner (Rowan Atkinson) sighs and draws up a shopping list. Wright's classic deadpan performance is set off perfectly by the boredom and snobbery expressed in Atkinson's exagerrated facial expressions and accent. Although well acted and directed, it is the witty and original script, written by Mark Armstrong and Wright himself, that really makes "The Appointments" shine...
...action films (A Better Tomorrow, The Killer) entitled him to any special dispensation. So they saw Hard Target and sent it back with a prohibitive NC- 17 rating. Seven times. He had been brought to Hollywood to make a John Woo movie, with its ruthless pace, choreographed gunplay and boredom-defying camerabatics -- and after he made it, he found that he couldn...
Some days, guns are just a defense against boredom that comes from a lack of guidance and direction. Asked to name a single hobby, Doug, who is remarkably guileless for a gunslinger, is stumped. He concedes the craziness of him and his classmates shooting at one another, but wonders how it could be any different. "Parents just don't understand that everything has changed," he says. "You can't just slug it out in the schoolyard anymore and be done with it. Whoever loses can just...