Word: duel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President be denied satisfaction on account of his office? If the office allows him to testify about exposing himself to a former employee, surely he will not be denied the privilege of defending his wife's honor. In the old days, he would have challenged that villain to a duel. But in these gentler times, mano a mano would seem more appropriate...
Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style--as writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in Heat, his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America. It also becomes a critique of pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent...
Neil McCauley (Robert de Niro) is an orderly and calculating bank robber. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is a disorderly and incautious Los Angeles cop on McCauley's trail. "Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style. As writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in 'Heat', his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America," says TIME's Richard Schickel. With what may be the best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking...
...alien life form on earth, conceivably connected with the report (and alleged government cover-up) of a UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Professional skeptics find the film a clever or clumsy hoax. Others believe it's real, but not from Roswell. The UFOlogical combatants duel it out in magazines and on the Internet while poring over the footage with an intensity not lavished on any home movie since the Zapruder film...
...BEAST: This 1926 silent-movie version of Moby Dick changed more than just the title. As "Ahab Ceeley," high-profile John Barrymore survives his duel with the Great White Whale--and gets a love interest. Critical reactions? The New York Times blubbered with praise, while allowing that "it would have been preferable ... to forgo the use of a property moon in one setting, as it is by no means realistic...