Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underbrush, some grunts focused their gunsights on their comrades. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army (NVA) were shadowy figures in this family tragedy; stage center, it was sibling riflery. Stone's achievement is to pound and hack this theme into a ripping yarn about a good man, an evil man and an Everyman -- a young, romanticized Oliver Stone -- suspended between them with his life and ideals in the balance. In vivid imagery and incendiary action, Stone's film asks of our soldiers, "Am I my brother's killer?" The answer is an anguished...
...kind of movie catharsis that may make Platoon a megahit. But can Chris or the audience take moral satisfaction in this deed? Which "father" has he followed? Has Chris become like Elias, back from the grave to avenge his own murder? "You have to fight evil if you are going to be a good man," Stone says. "That's why Chris killed Barnes. Because Barnes deserved killing." Or has he emulated his enemy? Has he become Barnes in order to kill him? Stone has another answer: "I also wanted to show that Chris came out of the war stained...
...Lyubimov's reputation as one of the world's great directors. Crime and Punishment is a startling visual essay, awhirl with energy, ablaze with ideas, at once a devout invocation of Christian hope and a fervid warning against the moral "arithmetic" by which statesmen, as much as felons, balance evil deeds against happy consequences...
During the '30s Hollywood became a roost for an astonishing assortment of wanderers and political refugees. Playwright Bertolt Brecht despised Hollywood but scuttled about trying to get work (his evil city Mahagonny, a net for pleasure lovers, gives Friedrich his title). Igor Stravinsky, Friedrich relates, tried to write movie music but never succeeded. When Producer Irving Thalberg offered $25,000 for a score for The Good Earth, the distinguished and threadbare atonalist Arnold Schoenberg demanded $50,000 and the right to direct the actors, who, he felt, should chant their lines...
...priest's reply made a powerful impression. "Yes, they can," he said, "in the same way they can understand abstractions connected with Marcos, because he personifies evil and suffering." Then, asked Cory, "how do you personify truth, justice and freedom?" The priest was unequivocal: "You must be certain that the person you select is very different from Marcos. Then it will be easy." There it was -- the idea given flesh in a way that Aquino intuitively understood and could translate to the Filipino electorate. By the end of the meal, she knew what she would...