Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other questions this complicated film raises. New York City, for example, is almost entirely absent. Lumet shoots almost all scenes inside, presumably to show the profound isolation of Ciello's--or anyone else's--behavior. Lumet may have thought he already made his New York Movie in Dog Day Afternoon, with its wonderful characterization of the city's good-natured malevolence, or in Serpico, with its Good Guys vs. Bad Guys simplicity. One can only hope, by the way, that Lumet concentrated on interiors because he wanted to set a specific tone, not because he sought to solidify his status...
...Dog's Life
...Calif. Dean was separated from troops of his 24th Infantry Division in 1950. After eluding Communist patrols for 30 days, he was captured but resisted all efforts by the enemy to extract military information from him. Dean won the Medal of Honor but said: "I'm just a dog-faced soldier...
...overage. He had to work like a dog to get in shape, and then keep refusing commissions that were offered to him, because a commission would "separate him" from other men. He became a good soldier and made corporal. Writes Langguth: "This time he would live his life the right way or he would end it." On the foggy dawn of Nov. 14, 1916, near Beaumont-Hamel, he was shot by a German sniper. During a brief pause in an advance one of his men had lit up, and Corporal Munro had just yelled, "Put that bloody cigarette...
...Garp/Berry/Irving's philosophy is basic stuff: one must live willfully, purposefully and watchfully. Accidents, bad luck, underloads and open windows lurk everywhere-and the dog really bites. It is only a matter of time. Nobody gets out alive, yet few want to leave early. Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to nearly everyone...