Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night where he ate the consecrated hosts, tried to say Mass, and even urinated on the altar. It is clear to one sister that he must die. The old maids consult two priests, the older of whom agrees with the death sentence for the reason that Tombo is a brute and cannot expiate his sin through repentance. It is too much for the younger priest. "Go ahead!" he shouts to the old maids. "Sacrifice that poor creature. Revenge yourself for your shame, your ridiculous impotence, your rancor, your rage." The sisters order the priest from the house, and while...
...helpless sadness that deepens and spreads until it dominates the picture. It begins with the marriage of a wealthy aristocrat's daughter to a farmer's son who is trying to get out of debt. The bride is a sentimental ingenue of classical stamp; the groom is a taciturn brute who resembles Melville's Ahab...
...grace of "Torso of the Figure Called Fruit" to the chiselled strength of his archer "Heracles;" from the classical serenity of his "Head of the Figure Called Strength" to the expressionistic grimacing of his head of Beethoven. Rodin created individuals; Bourdelle, types. He idealized, modeling a Hercules who epitomized brute strength and a nude who was simply a series of smooth curves, more goddess than woman. His nude and his Hercules look totally different, but they reveal the same approach toward art, the same distillation of natural extremes...
...saber, and the first wide-scale use of shrapnel, barbed wire, trenches, machine guns. Resembling the American Civil War in fact as well as in fiction-formula, the Boer War found the most daring soldiers and the most skillful generals on the losing side, while the victors had the brute mass of men and metal...
...than it does on film. Like a mirror smashed to splinters, the plot fractures into flashbacks, and the spectator spends half his time putting the pieces together. He spends the rest of the show trying to understand the principal characters. The hero is supposed to be a big stupid brute, but Actor Harris portrays him as a big sensitive brute. So of course the spectator can't understand why the heroine can't love him. She seems unreasonable and unmotivated, and before long the whole picture seems unreasonable and unmotivated...