Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot is not so much derivative as accumulative, encompassing historic epochs, good versus evil, and social commentary, all with a light tongue in cheek. It seems The Supreme Being (pictured for most of the movie like one of the Wizard's apparitions, a disembodied, blustering head, but then realized on earth by Sir Ralph Richardson in a rumpled suit) has demoted these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves...
...film's major hangup is its confused characterization of evil. The devil (David Warner a la Ming the Merciless) tries to encompass all evil but fails to conjure anything but pity for his campy lines. Margaret Hamilton's witch in Oz terrified children of all ages; she never diluted her rottenness. Yet Gilliam has exorcised the seriousness out of where it belongs and makes the devil and his cohorts buffoons, wearing garbage bags over their capes and muttering things about advanced technology. Gilliam intends the plastic and electronics, which were also prominent in Kevin's living room, to personify evil...
...good myths about women in the Indo-European world die a quick death," Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty '62 told more than 75 people at her lecture on "Evil Women in Myth and Reality" at the Cronkhite Graduate Center yesterday...
...consciousness today, O'Flaherty demonstrated how myths often limit our thinking patterns. In India, where liquid is precious, women in myth are seen as draining fluids out of men. Similarly, their own body fluids, such as milk, are frequently poisonous in stories. Women are seen as sexually dangerous, hence "evil...
Halloween II [Pi Alley]: Remember how the psycho disappears at the end of Halloween I after he got killed a couple of times? Well, that wasn't a symbolic depiction of the never-ending fight against evil, it was a loophole that allowed a sequel. Here it is, with the same plot, same characters, same everything. Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence in action...