Word: cliches
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This old and unreliable cliché remains in vogue precisely because it is a comfort to the cynically inert conscience. Why risk a moral stance if evil, greed and calculated self-interest will invariably win out? Win they certainly do in The Visit. Clara Zachanassian (Rachel Roberts), a middle-aging, much-married multimillionairess, has come back to her impoverished home town of Gullen with a rather special proposition. She will bestow half a billion marks on the town and another half a billion to be divided equally among its citizens in return for what might be called Salome...
...short, it seems that Mies, like his opponent Frank Lloyd Wright in the snailly windings of the Guggenheim Museum, felt a lofty unconcern verging on arrogance toward the needs of arts other than his own. Every grand old man has a prescriptive right to his clichés. But few have exercised it with more ruthlessness than Mies van der Rohe in this, his last building...
...accurate title might have been "Cheap Shots of Eight." These impressions of the 1972 Olympic Games have almost nothing of value to say either about the Munich spectacle or about athletics in general. What the film does do is bring together in one handy package most of the reigning clichés of contemporary film making. As such, it should be must viewing at every film school in the world; elsewhere it may be enjoyably and profitably avoided...
...that really lies across Taylor, of course, is that of Gaslight, that old movie chiller in which a woman prone to nervous disorders believes herself to be going mad, both despite and because of the fawning ministrations of her husband and a friend. Director Hutton incorporates most of the clichés of the Gaslight tradition, including squeaking stairs, hysterical phone calls and many looks of lingering menace. Screenwriter Williamson's script, adapted from the Broadway play by Lucille Fletcher (who wrote another classic of the genre, Sorry, Wrong Number, a few decades back), retains all the trappings...
Riggs' own secret weapon is his mouth, and Flamini reports that it produced a constant volley of phrases and clichés as varied as the spins, lobs and trick shots that Bobby uses so well on the court. "A lovable rogue, that's how you should portray me," Riggs told Flamini at one point. "I like that role." Flamini faced the lovable rogue on the tennis court one day, but did not last long; he fell during the warmup, badly twisting his ankle, and spent the rest of the time using a cane to keep up with...