Word: fucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from angle to angle she builds a brilliant encounter between Brando and Jurgen Prochnow, who plays Captain Stolz of the secret police. Palcy delivers a particularly effective shot of Brando after the judge announces his verdict. While commotion breaks out around the defeated lawyer, he sits immobile, quietly mumbling "fuck" over and over again...
Three weeks ago, the fans were dogging us everywhere we went...Fuck V. Fuck the fans. We need to win this game for us...Today we have to put aside all the differences between black and white, who's playing and who's not, and let's go out there and give it a shot--for us. Scrap everyone else--school pride and all that garbage. Let's just try to play one game one time for us, just like the old days prior to the start of the season when we used to go down...
...phrases. She describes the beach: "they sat on the top of the outermost dune watching the waves slide in below, sinuous, cracking the whip of their white backs over the hidden sandbars." Dinah rebels against the routines of her first, marriage, screaming, "'I don't see what liking to fuck you has to do with being confused with a laundry service!'" Or Susan's feelings for Willie: "Susan could feel her desire for him seeping back like sweet red wine, like mulled wine spicy and hot and tipsy...
What does it all mean? Prascak defies his audience to find any meaning, which seems to be part of the point. Despite Prascak's claim that the principle behind his direction is "what the fuck," the play is far from random, but it avoids such conventions as plot and character development. This is confrontational theater, not for the faint of heart or the closed-minded. Though the show is little more than an hour long, few theatergoers would be willing to withstand more than a few minutes of it, even under alcoholic sedation...
...characters are secondary. Sure, Akeem is the main role, but he is so nice that he's too saintly to be real. He is funny mostly for his ignorance. In one scene, happy Akeem offers a morning serenade to the city of Queens, which responds with a chorus of "Fuck you," to which Akeem, not understanding, offers his own joyous "Yes, fuck you!" This is about the only time Murphy swears in the film. Akeem is a departure for Murphy, and to his credit, he pulls...