Word: godot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stoic demeanor led him to portray a succession of authoritative and trustworthy characters; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Perhaps best known for roles on The Defenders (1961-65) and The New Doctors (1969-73), Marshall also starred in films and appeared in the 1956 Broadway premiere performance of Waiting for Godot...
...such moments Quarantine has the feel of Samuel Beckett's philosophical vaudeville. But that is where any comparison with the playwright should end. None of Crace's characters is a despairing optimist waiting for Godot or any other no-show. Sacred or profane, each represents the beginning...
...Mamet shoot isn't solemn. "There's a great atmosphere on the set," says Martin, whom Mamet wanted to work with ever since seeing him in a 1988 revival of Waiting for Godot, and who seamlessly joins such Mamet familiars as Pidgeon (the author's wife) and Jay. "You can make a great movie having fun as easily as you can make a great movie having angst." Mamet loves devising practical jokes, keeping the actors loose, writing gags just for the joy of it. He's written 20 or so plays, five original screenplays he's directed, seven scripts...
...numbed. For instance, the scenes of Max and Horst at work in the concentration camp--endless vistas of two ragged, small figures stumbling across the whiteness of stone or snow in their meaningless work--evoke echoes of the theatre of the absurd, of postmodern anguish a la Waiting for Godot. But it seems unclear why this effect is courted in the first place. The movie's ultimate aim appears to be a statement about the sublime aptitudes and beauty of the human soul, and the existentialist numbness of its intermediate scenes, striking as they may be, are working against this...
...distance from his offspring and his long-ago affair still haunt his family. Catherine secretly informs the guests at Enda's funeral that the family would prefer privacy to the customary stream of visitors and after the funeral the tense family, waiting for mourners who've gone pubbing with Godot, is left alone with its festering resentments...