Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like this movie, no one will Class may have something for everyone, but for the Harvard set it's pure ego-massage. Sure, the plot weaves through prep school, sexual initiation and the birth of a friendship but it marches slowly and inescapably to one place. Harvard And when a movie tells you all prep school ambition leads to where you sit, what could be more fun than a wistful look at how you got there or might have...
...weakest when trying to show how his people get from one point in their lives to a radically different one and strongest when he hectors, beguiles, exhausts, persuades through his characters. Roshan Seth, who played Nehru in Gandhi, turns Mehta-at first a stone figure on the horseback of ego-into a complex and winning man of his own world...
Superman's personality has been threatening to go splitsville ever since he was saddled with the alter ego of Clark Kent, ace reporter and consummate nerd of the Daily Planet. Clark is every clumsy, sweet-souled teen-age boy who ever fantasized scoring the big touchdown or scoring with the prom queen; Superman is the 6-ft. 4-in. embodiment of that dream. This man is both men, hulk and hunk, and no telephone booth is big enough to house the inherent contradictions...
...They don't want to be victims, but they don't want to give up their culture to be accepted.... White people who make a sincere attempt to reach out suffer the same doubts and the same pressures in reverse. It's crushing on either side, ego-destroying. Not to mention interesting and funny. Mostly funny. That's why I want to make a film like "The Kold Waves...
...contemporaries like Ernst Gombrich or Adrian Stokes. Clark was a pre-Freudian and, though he was too wise to try to dismiss the sort of art that comes from the dark side of the mind, he felt ill at ease with extreme expressions. Pascal's dictum that the ego is detestable-Le moi est haïssable-was his motto, and he lived up to it with guarded mandarin decorum...