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...sewer chase should alert you that Dragon is a distant descendant of Les MisErables?with Liujian as Jean Valjean, Richard as Javert, Jessica as the prostitute Fantine and Jessica's daughter as Cosette. What's missing here is any attempt at literacy; the script's garish dialogue seems less written than spray painted. Richard spouts a lot of generic tough-guy dialogue ("Bring him to me alive; I'll kill him myself,") while Liujian barely speaks at all ("I'm not your type?" Jessica poutily asks him, and our monastic hero replies, "I don't have type...
...garish orange livery of Stelios Haji-Ioannou is spreading over Europe like a virus--and his competitors haven't found a cure. This natural-born salesman, a 34-year-old combination of the cerebral and the showman, of rich kid and hustler, has a knack for presenting the consumer with a cheap service that's free of the hassle and headache usually associated with discounts. He's applying the idea liberally across a growing number of businesses under the umbrella of easy--as in easyJet, easyRentacar and easyEverything...
...Likewise, Zwigoff has changed the look of "Ghost World" from a slate-blue monochrome to full color. While this sacrifices the melancholy, "ghostly" tone of the comic, it also allows for sharper contrasts between the garish, fluorescent world of fake fifties diners and multiplexes vs. the velvety tones of Enid and Seymour's cluttered bedrooms. Director of photography Affonso Beato makes the most of highlighting how ghastly America's commercial spaces and their inhabitants have become. "Look at all these creeps," Enid squeals with delight as she enters the sunless world of an "adult" videostore...
...content but context. TV Land offers trivia nuggets and behind-the-scenes stories as well as "retromercials," the vintage commercials it airs every hour. A few days after Lemmon died, Game Show Network aired a marathon of his little-seen 1950s appearances on What's My Line? Amid the garish capitalist thunderdomes of today's prime-time game shows, seeing an urbane Lemmon and publisher Bennett Cerf trade quips in tuxes was a mini-lesson in changed American mores. "There was a real New York sophistication and wit in game shows then," says GSN president Rich Cronin. Likewise, watching...
...Together David and Joe travel through garish landscapes that, as imagined by artist Chris Baker (who was on the project in the early years) and production designer Rick Carter, handsomely evoke every sci-fi dystopia from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to Blade Runner and this year's Monkeybone. Come to the Flesh Fair--a sort of Thunderdome demolition derby where vengeful humans, led by the demagogic Lord Johnson-Johnson (Ireland's Brendan Gleeson), set hapless automatons aflame--and try to get out fast. Spend the night in Rouge City, a city of sensual schlock that is filled with Kubrick...