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Chomet (who did use computer animation for the film's cars, boats and trains) has a canny design eye to match his narrative wit. The old woman is stocky and clubfooted, a compact metaphor for stubborn dedication; her grandson is so spindly he could ride Giacometti's Chariot; Bruno the dog has more personality than 101 Dalmatians. The movie isn't aimed at kids, but they will find plenty to beguile them. And don't worry that the film is French; it has hardly any dialogue. Doesn't need it. The gnarly imagery and the movie's understanding...
...centuries, men have pushed themselves to the brutal boundaries of their powers, striving to fulfill the savage desire to emerge as the fittest—the alpha, even. This animalistic impulse has resulted in brutalizing weight-lifting contests, bloody chariot races, horrifying wars between nations and, at fair Harvard, the Chickwich Challenge. A test of stealth, cunning and digestion, the rules are deceptively simple: consume a hearty, pre-ordered chickwich (or Boca burger for Daniel H. Lassiter ’04), seated and unassisted, in each of the 12 dining halls, save grill tickets and emerge victorious, as well...
...MOVIES ARE THE NEW EPICS. The side-by-side race in The Fast and the Furious is a modern Ben-Hur chariot race. Instead of re-creating ancient Rome and bossing around thousands of extras in togas, directors get to re-create a strip of the San Diego Freeway and wreck lots of cars. That's the majesty of being in charge of an action film. In Hollywood you're not a true creator unless you can destroy stuff...
Provide the masses with entertainment, and they will lead content lives. The notion is as true today as it was in Roman times, and we are pleased to see that the Undergraduate Council is providing entertainment to the Harvard masses. The ancient Greeks had theater and the Romans had chariot races, but here in the land of Edison, Americans have movies. Panem et circenses (bread and circuses) has become “popcorn and movies...
...dream world of people dancing, singing, drinking, having fun," says Jaffé. Titian was a good man at a party, and not everyone in The Andrians stays robed as they loll next to a river of wine. In Bacchus and Ariadne, the wine god leaps out of his chariot to meet a princess abandoned by her boyfriend on the island of Naxos. She was quickly off with the old love (Theseus, who's he?). Things haven't changed much in the Greek islands, except that cars have replaced cheetah-drawn chariots, and fewer revelers dress in snakes. Titian produced "some...