Word: denouement
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...there cannot-and that is why Shaffer stalls his inevitable denouement by padding the film's doctor-patient scenes with flashbacks that detail Alan's past. Despite a nude appearance by Jenny Agutter and cameo performances by such fine actors as Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews and Eileen Atkins, Equus' digressions are little more than excuses to fetch popcorn...
...hitting the heavily protected weak link in the planet-fortress of the Empire that reduces the forces of evil to a pyrotechnic starburst signalling the end of the dark days in the universe. While the dogfight that leads into the last-ditch attack is a mite drawn out, the denouement amply compensates for any peccadillos of self-indulgence that Lucas commins as he films the dueling spacecraft...
...that glues the viewer of Z to the edge of his seat. Yves Montand turns in yet another tour de force as the pacifist legislator whose brutal assassination triggers the investigation that inexorably leads to the top layer of the Junta: Bear in mind, however, that no Watergate-style denouement awaits the generals. Irene Pappas' brooding widow adds little to the film; the role limits her to a couple of disconsolate weeping sessions and some blank stares. But Jean-Louis Tritignant provides the needed complement to Montand as he relentlessly pursues the Truth in his capacity as the prosecutor...
...editorial so corrosive that aesthetics, questions of form and proportion simply dissolve. The Chiefs win the league championship on a fluke, when their last holdout against the brawling style flips out. Throughout, this out-of-place Ivy Leaguer has been nicely underplayed by Michael Ontkean. But in the denouement he is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind of comic response, thus vitiating the power of an energetic and original movie that gamely risks, in its more brutal moments, being mistaken for the very sort of thing it is criticizing. Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast...
...Cambridge. Nevertheless, he spent six months "sweating and gibbering" before he found the right blueprint for the series, which he suggested. He would throw out Trollope's character A as boring and superfluous -only to watch her turn up 700 pages later as someone essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when it was obvious that B was the motivation behind C, who was so important that he could not conceivably be strong-armed into oblivion. "It was the same trouble with everyone I tried to get rid of," Raven complains. "They...