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...have ever met in any walk of life." His unusual self-defense role also gives him a chance to come across as an unsinister personality to jurors. Persico's strategy, says one court veteran, "is brilliant, if it works." But he runs a risk: his questions must not convey knowledge of events that an innocent person would not possess...
Kesey, too, means to convey the imperative of motion. At the center of his loosely related narratives is the Oregon farm, which serves as both the setting for pastoral romances and a pit stop for the wrecked and restless. Old Pranksters pass through on their way from nowhere in particular. The proprietor can be as hospitable as a Bedouin, but not when he is accosted by footloose youths smelling of "sour unvented adrenaline...
...been making myself laugh at horrible jokes. A random assortment of suicide notes would be far more amusing than anything I have heard. Although the majority of them are so ethnically and sexually offensive that even printing them would touch off a series of riots, it is possible to convey a little bit of their essence...
Like My Beautiful Laundrette minus the homosexuality, the bond between the two boys is the bond that holds the viewer to the screen. Their interaction, the fun and the sadness they have together makes you happy as you watch the movie. Tea in the Harem manages to convey a lot of things, from poverty to alienation, by seeing them reflected through the boys' relationship instead of confronting them directly...
...years to complete, as the director shot endless retakes and stopped filming for weeks at a time while he sought inspiration. For one important scene, in which Chaplin's Little Tramp first meets the blind flower seller, he shoots for weeks, groping in vain for a way to convey a crucial piece of plot information: the girl has mistaken the tramp for a rich man. Nothing seems to work. The scene is finally completed, but Chaplin returns to it months later with one more idea: a limousine door slams shut, and the girl assumes the tramp is its owner...