Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perfervid shockers has always been poised between a scream and a giggle. Now, with Knightriders, Romero has taken a bigger risk: he blends Arthurian legend with modern-day bikers-Excalibur meets Easy Rider-and dares the audience to laugh at the noble exploits of working-class jousters. The Camelot caravan juggles lofty ideals and hand-to-mouth reality as it journeys from one small town to another, exhibiting swordsmanship in battles where fellowship precariously reigns and only feelings get hurt. They are the most benign of outlaws; they embody the spirit of regional cinema...
...seat. Following them in the motorcade was Presidential Press Secretary Jim Brady. Half an hour earlier, his deputy, Larry Speakes, had asked, "You going with the President to the hotel?" Brady's casual reply: "Yeah, I think I will." With other agents following in the "battlewagon" protective car, the caravan moved swiftly through the ram-slick streets to the hotel. Everything was going smoothly; the trip seemed quite routine...
That lifestyle can't last--at least not without some adaptation. The dated caravan is running up against the changes that come with the modernity overtaking Brazil. Huge American Caterpillar bulldozers are ripping through the jungle, and the "fishbones" of TV antennas poke up everywhere. In one hamlet, Gypsy and Salome explore the apparently deserted town, wondering whether to present their show, only to find the entire community sitting in churchlike attendance on a single, tiny TV screen glowing with disco action from the dance floor of "American Bandstand." Searching for towns where progress has not yet stolen their audience...
Neither Reagan's exuberance nor the programmed gaiety of Washington could fully mask the bittersweet nature of the passage of power. As the caravan moves on, someone must yield. It has not been an easy time for Jimmy Carter. Transitions are for winners, not losers. Yet, there was the feeling that Carter had been a better President after defeat than before, that his actions in the transition were more graceful and selfless than when he worried so much about political survival. Perhaps Carter, too, heard voices from the past, like that of Muriel Humphrey in her last days...
...power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate - celebrate. Bye Bye Brazil does just that, setting a naturalistic tale to a bossa nova beat. It follows a tatty caravan of entertainers through the backwaters of Bahia, making music and mischief and the occasional friend or lover. The glittery magic means more to the actors than it ever will to the villagers; the show must go on so that the showmen can continue to believe in themselves. The attractive cast...