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...matter, the futurists depended on subjects as their springboard. Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...
When Liggett rhapsodizes at the end of the movie that Gloria may have been bad on the outside but that "inside, her every fibre was striving for respectability," the only thing any self-respecting movie-goer can do is walk out. But this gesture, if the viewer has waited this long, is about two hours too late to do any good...
Shot in Scotland by Director Robert Stevenson, who says he is Author Stevenson's tenth cousin, Kidnapped follows the story of the novel accurately enough. David Balfour (James MacArthur, 22-year-old son of Actress Helen Hayes), "a steady lad and a canny goer," is diddled out of an inheritance by his wicked Uncle Ebenezer, who has the boy sandbagged aboard a brig bound west for the Carolinas, where the infamous Captain Hoseason intends to sell him as a bondslave. But the ship is wrecked off the Isle of Mull, and David, washed ashore, soon finds himself involved...
...most insidious element in the denaturalization of the American films stems from the nature of the market. Studies have shown, Bluestone points out, that the habitual movie-goer (particularly female) depends on the weekly movie for an escape from the tedium of daily life. And of course, everything must turn out for the best and true love triumph in the end. Hence, too, the "star" system in which the viewer identifies himself with a particular actor and the actor with a particular role. The popular film is thus required to create and sell folk myths which are satisfying and reassuring...
...women in the cast suffer from rigor mortis; their movements and voices are lifeless, and they read their lines. The play does, however, achieve a consistent dullness, which lets the drowsy theatre-goer sleep without fear of missing a thing...