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Many other aspects of the movie serve admirably to heighten the adventure and the atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
Like all but the greatest grotesques, The Rose Tattoo sets out so furiously to heighten the flavors of reality that the meat of the thing is soon lost in its seasoning; and only a moviegoer who can take his peperone straight will be able to judge if the picture is really hot stuff...
Just as Joan has been put in an American context to heighten her joyful spirit, so the other characters have been adapted with varying degrees of success, however. Boris Karloff is a restrained and very effective Cauchon. While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American...
Compositionally, the Disasters concentrate on action to the extent of losing visual balance. Goya exaggerates gesture to heighten emotion or point a message. In "No se Puede Mirar" for example, Goya shows who the ends of rifles can outbalance human beings...
Miller explained some of the details that makes the second of these plays different from his earlier works as well as from contemporary realism. He used the technique of the Greek Drama, in this case substituting a narrator for the chorus, to heighten the dramatic effect. While the play is going on, Miller said, the audience is directed to the important conflicts and made to realize that they are not looking in on real life, as in Death of a Salesman, but are watching a frankly convention-bound art form. This signifies an attempt on his part to strike...