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King Kong is essence of nostalgia, hokey and naive. It's also adventure and excitement and fantasy. When Kong finally totters, he's somehow all of us whom civilization has overwhelmed and exploited. Even if he does eat people when he's angry, he has more dignity than the humans who abuse him. He earns our sympathy within the aura of legend and adventure that the film creates...
...appears briefly in a slide show staged for David's entertainment. ("Andreas," David muffles, "can't I see a picture of your wife NOOOD?") But seriously, von Sydow's performance in a confrontation with Gould, and in one with his wife, is miles above everything else in this hokey genre-piece, the latter scene giving him the opportunity to proclaim with Bergmanic suggestiveness that "this drama has been going on for two years; how long can suffering be prolonged?" Something deep within us sighs--at last the director breaks through to his audience. Meanwhile, Karin has been heaving her veiny...
...Radical politics tend to be simple minded. When you're writing in that milieu, you make sure to stay simple-minded and to make sure your plot surprises are really hokey and funky and funny, just the opposite of what Melfi does. But you run the risk of creating an entertainment. A month later you realize those were white actors. White is black is white with whites playing blacks turning white. It's like an Amos and Andy show. The point of the play is that most people are so lethargic on the issue of racism. I generally write...
FOUR-LETTER WORDS aside, the dialogue of Sligar stretches the imagination almost as much as the plot construction. The lines range from pure exposition to the hokey (Father, speaking of the son: "He called me old man!") to the absurd ("I don't know where you're headed, but you're going to be pushed there damn fast."). Some of the worst writing centers around Paul's teenage affair, gratuitously stuck into the second half--complete with flashback...
Three years ago, Clint Eastwood-an unshaven, slit-eyed refugee from television's Rawhide-was glad to get an invitation from Italian Director Sergio Leone to star in a hokey little quickie to be shot in Spain. It was called A Fistful of Dollars, and the title proved prophetic: the picture was a smash. Leone and Eastwood collaborated again on For a Few Dollars More. Now they are back with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly-a title that might serve as the film's own capsule review...