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...Diana Ossana, the film has a literary punch rarely seen in Hollywood films. The dialogue is limited but pointed, and the script is more interested in calling up powerful symbols (the men’s shirts, Ennis’s mailbox) rather than unwieldy monologues to dramatize the characters?? grief. McMurtry and Ossana made the smart decision to give incredible freedom to Lee and his actors. More is said on Anne Hathaway’s face in her last scene than the sum of all the film’s naturalistic and appropriately sparse dialogue. Its lazy passage...
Director Rebecca J. Levy ’06 has guided the actresses to impacting portrayals that engage the audience in the characters?? psyches, giving the female figures a more substantiated human dimension than their Shakespearean counterparts. Unlike the Shakespearean play, “Desdemona” puts an empathetic focus an the unfortunate condition of these women, who have an inner potential that is beyond what their male-dominated world will allow...
...play the woman [because Jack’s] more sensitive, and Heath is more like the John Wayne?’” While Lee doesn’t share the viewers’ facile pigeonholing, he does disclose curious thoughts on the measure of the characters?? sexuality. Though he notes that both characters are “to some degree, very gay,” he believes that “Jack is more gay.”Gyllenhaal says that the sexuality of the characters is never clear, and “in that ambiguity...
With a colorfully assorted and hilarious cast of characters??including a woefully simple-minded law clerk and fire-and-brimstone Anabaptist, “The Alchemist” brings a compelling story to the Harvard stage. Driven by greed, each fool seeks the supernatural aid of the alchemist (aptly named Subtle, played by Steve A. Travierso ’09) and is subsequently duped out of his worldly possessions. Face (Zachary B. Sniderman ’09 ), a crafty butler with an absentee master, and Dol (Alexandra M. Jacobs ’08), a ferocious prostitute, are Subtle?...
...HAZY GENRE BLENDINGThe starting point for the film was the script, written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, and adapted from a Scott Phillips novel. It’s a nasty, biting little bugger, a film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters??linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard...