Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story line continues the basic good-guys vs. bad-guys theme of the original film. Darth Vader wants Luke, and he uses Leia, Han, Chewbaca and C-3PO as bait to lure the young hero into his chillingly evil clutches. Like its predecessor, Empire provides some genuinely comic moments and some downright dimwitted dialogue. But unlike the original, the new film contains some truly shocking plot twists...
...return for silence on the murders, Brubaker is offered a deal that would give him the money to put into practice all the reforms for which he has been campaigning. He refuses, evidently on the grounds that one cannot make deals with a system so mired in evil. The movie, though sympathetic to his stand, stops short of full endorsement. A larger good might have been accomplished through compromise...
...tempermental, able to show and give love, yet occasionally a nurser of longtime grudges and maddeningly obstinate: above all, as Helen notes, a romantic lapsing into reverie at the slightest pretext, creating through imagination and fantasy a world more gorgeously hued than the real one, in which good and evil were splendidly arrayed against each other...
...death of love in post-war (and pre-WAR) America. It depicts the horror of a people who watch their own bloody past on TV, paint a bloodier future in books and movies Kubrick's included), and sit nervously waiting to be swallowed by an inevitable, self-destructive evil...
...range of facial contortions and emotional gyrations. He keeps us laughing nervously along, alienated from Shelley Duvall's goofy Wendy, eager to see what new twitch he will add to his repertoire. His eyebrows flap like crazy crows and his mouth and eyes twist into an astounding collection of evil leers. Even his voice changes frequency. This brilliantly amusing psychopath is a stylized mixture of madman and dramatic artist, one glazed eye directed at himself, the other on Danny, who is played to terrified perfection by little Danny Lloyd...