Word: expositioneers
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Another fault that emerges by the middle of the film is that there is no reason to care about the characters. They haven’t done anything to win the audience over. The graceless exposition is a series of short takes, just long enough to reveal relevant facts about...
Weimer's caption is a particularly telling addition, since it rightly suggests that elementary school aged children are not prepared to digest the highfalutin philosophy of these postmodern statements-their own viewing lenses are too unsophisticated, uninformed, theoretically simple. Elementary school children tend to be less interested in art as...
Whereas Larson's show is sweet and cuddly, Urinetown is blunt and in your face. This Brechtian fable--a sellout hit in its tiny off-off-Broadway theater that is moving to Broadway in August--is set in a city where the water shortage is so dire that private toilets...
It's a thoughtful piece, full of issues about love and communication and personal history affecting the present. But at only ten pages or so, it would have been nice to see it developed a bit more. Pekar's self-absorption can turn drama into mere exposition. In one case...
The so-called "Mighty Marvel Manner," a combination of idiot-level exposition, purple prose, absurdly contrived fight scenes and melodramatic pathos, can be done right or wrong. Mostly it gets done wrong. But when done right, as by its founders Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, and here by Simonson, it...