Word: grails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proved an easy target for critics, it is not so much because the proposal is without merit as that its proponents have promised too much. The consumer movement has taken on all of the characteristics of a religious crusade, and the consumer protection agency has become its Holy Grail. Ralph Nader and his followers--who see thalidomide behind every drug counter and carcinogens in every can of deodorant--have promised unrealistic benefits from a proposal that would, in reality, be an imperfect solution to the problem of adequately representing the interest of the consumer in the government proceedings. The unfortunate...
...innocence and that feeling for romance are what make Star Wars so fresh, so much fun and, finally, so fantastic. Lucas believed everything he put on film, and somewhere under the celluloid, he is Luke Sky-walker-out to slay the dragon, rescue the princess and find the Holy Grail. Black is black, white is white, and good will conquer evil, at least in his screening room...
...favorite insights of contemporary social analysis is that modern society is increasingly transient. People today seem to be lacking both roots and direction, constantly searching for the good life, the American Dream, or the Holy Grail...
Terry Gilliam is one of the Monty Python crowd, and Jabberwocky, despite a title and some quotations borrowed from Lewis Carroll, is, in some respects, a continuation of what was so brilliantly begun a couple of years ago in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Once again the setting is the Middle Ages. Once again the medieval world is seen as all ignorance, blood and excrement. Once again chivalry and romance are viewed as aristocratic conceits designed to make an ugly epoch palatable to the more delicate sensibilities of the time?and to latter-day observers of history...
There is, though, one important way in which Jabberwocky differs from the earlier film. That is in its almost total lack of humor. The fecund inventiveness, the marvelous pace and timing of Grail, the curious blend of earthiness and delirium that gave it its unique place in the history of modern screen comedy, are missing in Gilliam's work...