Word: gaslighted
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After seeing modern movies edited so tightly that scenes change before the actors even finish their lines, and the protagonists' characters developed to the sophistication of early Mickey Mouse cartoons, it is sometimes disorienting to see movies like 1944's GASLIGHT (Harvard's Carpenter Center, Sunday). Gaslight is all mood and atmosphere, as scenes unfold slowly and tension builds so unhurriedly that you're squirming by the beginning of hour...
...Mystery of Irma Vep is a lush and loving parody of every gaslight romance from Jane Eyre to Rebecca, with glancing references to Shakespeare and Poe, to Louis Feuillade's silent-movie serials and Universal horror shows of the'30s-not to forget a side trip to the pyramids, where Lord Edgar reveals himself as an Egyptologist with a mummy fixation...
DIED. Bronislau Kaper, 81, Polish-born composer of scores for such MGM films as San Francisco, Gaslight, both versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (with Clark Gable in 1935 and Marlon Brando in 1962) and Lili, for which he won an Oscar in 1953; of cancer; in Beverly Hills...
...Countess as among the "loveliest" and "most charming" of Shakespeare's heroines, while dismissing Bertram and Parolles as unworthy of the ladies' or our interest. By Act V, Helena's passion for her unrequiting snob has become an act of beatific willfulness and the stuff of gaslight melodrama...
DIED. Walter Reisch, 79, Academy Award-winning screen author who wrote, and occasionally directed, some 25 films in Austria and Germany before fleeing to the U.S. in the 1930s to script hit movies for Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) and Vivien Leigh (That Hamilton Woman) and to win an Oscar for the 1953 disaster epic Titanic; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles...