Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious sadness in the end--works fine. It's a kid having some fun, feeling the oats of acceptance for the first time. Except for the expletives--which are the film's idiom, and still form an expressive language--this could be a children's film. Or an old Hollywood picture, in the good sense of recalling simple emotions buried since a wide-eyed and easily-swayed childhood. When the kid grins and drools drunkenly, it's sweet...
While pretending to capture the air of cynicism and moral defeat that has arisen in the age of Watergate, Hollywood producers have seized on the opportunity to create brutal action epics, devoid of sense or feeling save the kick of violence. Audiences could once turn to the screen for fables of certainty; directors like John Ford obliged them with sagas of just men fighting for a righteous citizenry. Now we are not even asked to lament nostalgic visions of an idealistic America. With-it Hollywood hacks would simply have us snicker at the degradation that seems to be surrounding...
...Hollywood works in artificial extremes. The sticky old westerns or cop movies were based on the assumption that America was full of a spirit of egalitarian community and open land, and that only the aberrant would want to muck things up. The garish new breed of police thrillers tells us that the U.S. drives all its citizens crazy, our cities are virtual insane asylums, and the only objective standard and reforming force is the power...
...canonization of Lenny Bruce, the Dr. Johnson of four-letter words, continues. Seven years ago, Bruce died a junkie's death in Hollywood, hounded by obscenity charges. To many admirers, he was a martyr to middle-class morality, and now he is being hailed as the most influential social satirist of the era. A dozen-odd records of Lenny are available, plays and films have been made of his life, and now another movie is under way in Miami. Dustin Hoffman, 36, has the lead in Bob Fosse's Lenny, and, on location, he came up with...
...predate Chaplin's first full-length comedies. A Dog's Life is the funniest, and most poignant; Shoulder Arms isn't very funny at all; The Preacher comes after so much continuous Chaplin that it's hard to judge. The three films are connected by some hokey talk about Hollywood, and all three have overdone orchestral scores written by Chaplin, instead of his original piano scores...