Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open the film at all. In the depths of his soul, film critic Bogdanovich probably doesn't care. After all, many films by his idols were mishandled by ignorant distributors--Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry and Ford's 7 Women among them; Howard Hawks' Scarface had a social-conscious message tagged on in order to compensate for its violence; and finally, Bogdanovich can hardly complain about being opened at the Center, Boston's only great cheapie theatre, the one which first showed Hawks' Red Line 7000 and El Dorado to hungry crowds of sailors, derelicts, and Ivy Films regulars...
...room is quiet as Milgrim begins his spiel. "A lot of you won't believe this," he says, "but within twelve months' time seven or eight percent of the people in this room will be married to someone they met on this cruise." When the self-conscious laughter subsides, he explains that "because of the small sample, the computer can't really do its proper job," but that the computer matches should serve to break the ice. "There will be a bed check at 1 a.m.," he says with a wink in his voice...
Mark was able to disguise these unpleasant truths, Brandon contends, because he sincerely believed that Jesus was "the son of God, incarnated to accomplish mankind's salvation." A theological polemicist rather than a biographer, he was thus able to adjust some facts and ignore others without any conscious deceit. As an example of Mark's revisionist writing, Brandon cites the use of one apparently authentic saying of Jesus: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." In the context of Mark's Gospel, it implies...
Most of the images have less darkling origins. The Sea of Holes ("Or is it the Holy See?" quips John Lennon) was originally intended to go with the Beatle song, Fixing a Hole, which was later dropped from the sound track. It obviously reflects a conscious or subconscious memory of episodes in the movie 2001. The cotton-tailed, clown-faced Nowhere Man is a satire on intellectuals ("So little time, so much to know...
Just as the stream of self-conscious ness winds down to a thin treacle, the film-and the car-take flight. Caractacus spins a tale of adventure, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the hero. The car soars and sails, evil Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) covets it and unleashes comic villains to kidnap its owner. Instead, they get Grandpa. Off he goes to Vulgaria, a horrid land where children are forbidden. Underneath the baron's castle, the banished boys and girls have hidden for years, waiting for salvation...