Word: epiphanyã
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...particular, Sondheim is known for writing songs for characters in the midst of a personal crisis. “I love to write nervous breakdown songs,” he said. “I understand them so well.” The number “Epiphany?? in “Sweeney Todd,” for example, marks the turning point of the show, when Todd transforms from a tragic hero into a man thirsty for blood and vengeance. The success of this particular number is crucial, because it has to justify this character?...
...wasn't a sudden epiphany??it is a process...everyone's trying to deal with the same thing. I realized it here, and it was at Harvard where this process of asking began, and I certainly don't think it will be end here...
...spoil” the ending by giving it away. These highlights are not enough to interest the audience in the characters. The trite construction of “self-centered man has mid-life crisis/man hits road with slightly less narcissistic buddy/man gets life back on track after epiphany?? has been fully explored, most recently by “Sideways,” and “Tennis” adds nothing to the genre. While “Tennis” attempts to be a feel-good affirmation with substance and humor, the writing isn?...
...writing furiously but without focus, simultaneously working on two novels. One, tentatively titled The Petting Zoo, is the story of a young painter in New York. Carroll is keeping details of the second novel under wraps. All he will say is it resulted from a “great epiphany?? years ago and that he “almost sold it as a film to somebody, but I didn’t want to do that...
...greatest problem with the interpretation, though, is that it does not allow Todd a believable arc. Todd can’t snap during his “Epiphany?? because he has already snapped before the story begins; the scene becomes more a temper tantrum than a turning point...
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