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...near, and so I face the final curtain. My friend. I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I am certain...
...cast as charlatan priests, were directed to turn in subdued performances. Lucrative tie-ins were another sensitive issue. Katzenberg says, semiseriously, "We came up with the Red Sea boogie board. We had the 40-years-in-the-desert water bottle. We had the parting-of-the-Red-Sea shower curtain." But ultimately, both DreamWorks and its partner Burger King concluded that they would be doing themselves "a terrible disservice" if they pushed any kind of merchandise that would trivialize the film. Moses action figures were out. Instead, DreamWorks came up with a Wal-Mart package containing tickets to the film...
Also, Bishop set up the theater so that the audience had to walk through an exhibition of art about women, through the curtain, across the stage, and up to the seats. After entering the theater via the stage, the audience can hardly forget that it is observing a play...
...Under Beth Stewart's presidency, individual representatives have not felt empowered to bring up their constituents' views," Stone says. "We want to focus on the little things immediately...[but] we do need to bring down the iron curtain on political issues...
Only in one masterful sequence at the center of the film, when Kapur pulls back the curtain on Elizabeth, rehearsing a momentous address to the bishops of England, does the Queen herself take center stage as a feminist vision of powerful womanhood--using intelligence, humor and finesse to spellbind her subjects with her own authority. For once, the film emerges from the shadow of its most prominent artistic antecedent: The Godfather. In this sequence, we watch as Elizabeth rewrites history, beginning her speech halting and uncertain, and slowly coming into her own as a power broker. This, finally...