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...like Home Alone and cuddly creatures like Edward Scissorhands -- may mop up at the box office. But prestige is a Hollywood product too; it can be cashed in for Oscars if enough critics and Motion Picture Academy voters are impressed by what they see. So lauded literary properties like Hamlet and The Sheltering Sky become ambitious films. Herewith, three bookish films hoping for a shelf life that extends past New Year...
...pretend that the bias that infused drama did not infuse society is at best idiotic and at worst malicious. We cross-cast now to redress certain cultural greivances, but we should never forget how grave those greivances are. If a director casts an Asian-American as a Prince Hamlet, that still does not soothe the stinging reality that the West never did, indeed, never could, envision an Asian protagonist. Because so many roles are scripted for the social majority as acknowledged by our culture, roles scripted for Asian actors are anomolies. It ceases to become mysterious or even damnable when...
...stop at the village gates," is an old Vietnamese saying. That represents a strong democratic tendency at the grass-roots level. Under my regime, even in wartime, we applied democracy in a Western style by having not only an elected national assembly and provincial councils but also at the hamlet and village level...
...Great Profile was "androgynous . . . To mask his vulnerability, he adopted a supermasculine pose: hard-drinking, profane, whoring, cynical. He lived in terror of being unmasked." Yet drunk or hung over -- which was most of the time -- John became a matinee idol, a superb comedian and the most celebrated Hamlet...
...treatment of Shakespeare's text is here and elsewhere is ill- counseled: a spoof of Hamlet pointlessly substitutes for the masque of the goddesses in Act IV. Gravity characterizes moments that should be light (Prospero's epilogue); hesitation destroys the repartee (Ariel and Prospero's dialogues). The actors' delivered often indicate that they don't understand the meaning of their lines any more than...