Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music. Whenever the woodwinds and brass turn up on the sound track, one may be fairly sure that something atrocious will appear on the screen-and be distanced by the irony of juxtaposition. Thus to the strains of Rossini's Thieving Magpie, a girl is gang-raped in a deserted casino. In a sequence of exquisite comédie noire, Alex cripples a writer and rapes his wife while tripping through a Gene Kelly number: "Singin' in the rain" (bash), "Just singin' in the rain" (kick...
They bash up an old drunk who lies singing in a tunnel. They bloody Billyboy and his gang. They steal a Durango-95 and roar out into the countryside, running cars and pedestrians off the road. They pay "the old surprise visit" to a quiet home, force their way in, tie and gag the man of the house and rape his wife. Then, all feeling "a bit shagged and fagged and fashed," they retire once again to the Korova. After all, as Alex says, it has been "an evening of some small energy expenditures...
...that clowns are more apt to follow than to lead.) At times, his tone becomes overly solicitous--like a travel agent describing the most suitable road to heaven--but mostly he's the kind of good time Charley you'd be happy to include in any rag-tag gang. As Judas, Lloyd Bremseth has less to do; Godspell being as nonlinear as it is, he is more Christ's alter-ego than he is Christ's adversary...
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...Gang, Roth...