Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian chauffeur, writes about three people very much like herself, her husband, and her chauffeur. Since she is a popular novelist, her creations are romanticized exaggerations--the woman becomes emotional, the husband picturesque and tyrannical, and the chauffeur passionate. The real chauffeur reads her novel and tries to make fiction come true...
...reality is not fiction. The real chauffeur is frustrated in every way. No sleeping with the mistress, no murdering the master--not in this pragmatic world, the British comedy soberly suggests...
Some of the woeful inadequacies of life when compared to fiction are made very funny, but the film is not the neat satirical gem that it could be, and for a sad reason. The two sequences of events, both acted out for use with mild ingenuity by the same cast in the same setting, are too similar. Although an amusing technical touch is added by filming the reality in black and white and the fiction in technicolor, the scriptwriters' reality is often too close to the novelist's fiction, and both are often obvious...
...suit has what the Air Force calls "get-me-down capability." Something much better will be needed for exploring the moon or for climbing around, science-fiction fashion, outside a spaceship or inhabited satellite. The present suit has no joints in its arms or legs, and so it has little flexibility when inflated. Since it is meant to be worn for short periods only, there are no provisions for taking food, and no latrine facilities. Little attempt has been made to protect the wearer against the fierce temperature effects of empty space. If he were exposed to full sunlight...
...avoided the error of talking down to the viewer. Mars and Beyond would be worth repeating if it went no farther than its tersely witty cartoon history of man's conception of the universe through the ages. Beyond that, it has fun with self-contained parody of science-fiction, and inspires wonder as it ranges freely over the landscapes of strange planets and depicts in scientifically rooted detail how an atomic-powered space craft may some day make an interplanetary flight with a crew that could find a way to survive on Mars. Solidly researched, the show presents expert...