Word: climaxes
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Waters does an excellent job of building climax. The movie is so atypical that one cannot assume anything about the characters let alone what they might do. With the family trapped in the house while the storm rages outside, the tensions and emotions reach a dangerous level. When the lights go out (of course), conversation soon leads to unnecessary discoveries on everyone's part, and Marty and Lesly struggle to remain controlled despite the insanity that threatens to engulf them...
...dress and impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong with genre fusing or having characters whose individual stories could constitute an entire script in themselves, but this film does it sloppily. By the time The Locusts reaches its wanna-be tragic climax, jumping from Capshaw and Vaughn going head to head to Judd having a picnic with Davies, you feel as if you're watching two different movies. What's meant to be seen as ambitious and dramatically compelling comes across as strung out and hollow...
Last October the Marines added a grueling new climax to boot camp called the Crucible. Spread over 54 straight hours near the end of their training stint, it requires recruits to simulate a variety of battlefield actions amid 40 miles of hiking. They traverse a 20-ft.-wide creek with a pair of 10-ft. boards, and they carry a "wounded" Marine for a mile over rugged terrain. They perform with scant sleep or food, through day and night, and have to ignore scrapes and sprains. "I had to keep going and not let my team down," says Private Scott...
...those were not the only emergencies taking place at the country's largest hospital company. Even as Columbia was growing and doing record business, a fight for survival had broken out inside the executive suite after swarms of federal agents descended on various Columbia offices two weeks ago. The climax came at 8:30 a.m. last Friday, following an extraordinary board meeting held late into the previous night, when directors wrapped up the terms of the resignations of chairman and CEO Richard Scott, 45, Columbia's visionary founder, and president David Vandewater, 46. The big winner was new chairman...
...floor of a second-story room and listened to a husky, white-haired elder narrate the tragedy of Smith's last hours. The elder, using a walking stick to imitate the rifles of the mob, enacted the death scene with stagey gusto, but when the bloody climax came--Smith's disastrous fall from the building--he grew somber. "I personally think that when Joseph fell out that window, the Savior was right there to catch him." There were tears in his eyes now and more tears on the cheeks of the girl with corn-silk blond hair sitting beside...