Word: gering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REMAKING OLD CLASSICS has always been a popular--yet usually fruitless--pastime for filmmakers, as any views of last summer's pathetic reworking of the 1948 French classic Breathless can attest to Even superstud Richard Gere couldn't save Breathless flaccid plot. And in The Bounty, even fine performances by Australian hearthrob Mel Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both...
...failed to integrate different aspects of life. They tend to compartmentalize love, sex, work, etc. But is this a sufficient excuse for Americans to prevent a woman from being treated as an object of sexual desire and an intelligent human being at the same time? Male idols like Richard Gere, Robert Redford, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Selleck have been able to exploit their masculine appeal without losing control of their lives in the process. Perhaps a society which is capable of viewing men, but not women, on more than one level (i.e., sexual and professional) simultaneously, needs to be enlightened...
ALONE IN THE DARK 1) An Officer and Princess Leia. Richard Gere and Carrie Fisher. Slum kid fights to join the Jedi...
...story begins harmlessly enough, spotlighting the young doctor Eduardo Plarr (Richard Gere), as he struts his way through a small Argentine town near the Paraguay border. The handsome drifter, Plarr is half English, half Paraguyan and not quite anything. Although he'd rather keep to himself, he gets thrown into an inadvertant friendship with the English consul Charlie Fortnum (Michael Caine), and entangled by the demands of two old friends, now Paraguayan revolutionaries, who pressure him to help them kidnap a visiting American dignitary. Playing on Parr's apparent feeling for his father, a political prisoner in Paraguay...
Carrillo might have helped these things along, but the screenwriters follow the "women should be seen and not heard" school of filmmaking. Perhaps she was hushed up lest her authentic accent draw attention to Gere's flat American tones, made all the more irritating by his self-consciously correct pronunciation throughout of the word "Paraguay...