Word: cliches
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...gives a straightforward, acceptable read, especially considering the artificial dialogue he's given--that second "Yippee" really grates. Perhaps most affecting, though, is Ingmar Bergman regular Pernilla August (what's she doing here?), who plays Anakin's mother, Shmi. The lines she's given are just as pat and clich as the rest in the film, but the expressive lines of her face more than make...
...degree here and continuing his Ph.D. at Oxford. He has published books of poetry and he collects information about his topics by living the life of his subjects. He's currently writing a book called "100 Days in Drag." I know him personally and agree that although it sounds clich, the best way to learn about people is to walk in their shoes and try to see life through their eyes before making any judgments...
Your article on the mother-son relationship does a great disservice to fathers. The idea that a mother cares more about the children than does the father is based on clichés and false perceptions. Your anecdotes of doting mothers can be matched with stories of overprotective fathers...
...Love Streams. In it, Cassavetes also creates an answering male character, Sarah's brother, who has taken up womanizing in an attempt to ward off the chill he feels gathering in his bones. It is not an entirely successful characterization, partly because such males have become a cliché, but mostly because Cassavetes, the obsessed film maker, does not really understand certain less exalted obsessions that may distractingly come upon a man. His character neither fully focuses nor finally explodes...
...Definite Maybe Boutique. That is studio talk. A producer and scriptwriter who has had some success calls it "the coldest town in the country, run by some of the dumbest rich men in the world." He stays, he says, "for the money, obviously." Screenwriters have always bitched; this cliché is true. And yet there are certain circles in which it seems that everyone is writing a screenplay. One Eastern writer who is accustomed to working for "nickels and dimes," as he puts it, was hired for ten days' work on a remake of a movie the studio...