Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stavisky himself (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a two-bit swindler blown up to a Hindenburg of a con man, manipulating fake international corporations and floating fake bond issues. Stavisky thinks he's left his old world of petty fraud behind, and Resnais seems to agree with him, emphasizing the discontinuity between the pickpocket and the cosmopolitan "financier." Stavisky affects history in a way a pickpocket cannot, Resnais maintains; I'affaire Stavisky, when it's blasted out of the water, shakes the Popular Front Government of Leon Blum and forces the deportation of Leon Trotsky, who until then had enjoyed political...
...charge of class day ceremonies and at that time I was painting in a studio," he remembers. "I did a lot of charcoal caricatures of the faculty. Well, we put those on the walls and had a fake commencement with a Chinese student giving the salutatory address in Chinese instead of Latin...
...death by fire. In the end there is nothing left for Waldo but the ultimate commercialization of his love for his craft: stunt-flying in a Hollywood war movie. There, ironically, he finally gets his chance to fly against Kessler, and, by turning a fake dogfight into the real thing, to pass into legend himself...
...resign, which could possibly pave the way toward some kind of negotiations with the Khmer Rouge insurgents. Instead, Lon Nol staged a modest Cabinet reshuffling and fired his arrogant commander in chief, Lieut. General Sosthene Fernandez, who is hated both for his corruption (his army payroll is inflated with fake names) and for refusing to take orders from the National Assembly. At the presidential palace, Lon Nol threw a champagne party for Fernandez and his successor, Lieut. General Sak Sutsakhan. Fernandez wept and kissed the national flag as the green-and-red sash of the Grand Cross was placed over...
Perhaps Goldman should have been encouraged to write more gags, create more weird confusions and confrontations between real and fake women. (How about a husband who misses the old-fashioned fights-and the making up? Why not a little less discretion about the sexuality of a grown-up Barbie?) Or perhaps the opposite tack should have been tried. The piece could have been an exercise in pure terror, avoiding overt social comment. The broad early hints about what is going on here would then build realistic suspense...