Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What could a Coppola expect to do with Finian's Rainbow anyway?) Every scene--even the most violent--is played for character, and timed with the perfection needed to bring off such cocky middle-distance lensing. Coppola knew that in Gordon Willis he had the best colorist in current Hollywood credits. So he lets Willis react to the setting in color while Coppola points his angles towards the people...
Cabaret's treatment of decadence, however, signals only one major change in the Hollywood mentality. Where the movies once had to turn to towns like Sodom and Gomorrah for titillating and moralistic examples of vice unfettered, they now need go no further than the early days of the Third Reich. Movies as different as Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools. Lucino Visconti's The Damned. Hal Prince's Something for Everyone and Bertolluci's The Conformist have begun to pick and prod the corpses of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in search of moral parallels to our own, none...
...Hollywood, though, is not entirely to blame: look no further than your own local campus, where, for some time now, the kids have called their professors Fascists and the professors have spurned their students as Nazis, and you have some idea of how compelling the Nazi parallel is to Americans suffering their own special kinds of sturm and drang. America is no longer sure of her own moral rectitude, and Nazi Germany offers a convenient--and haunting--example of how wrong things...
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Talk about nostalgia! The movie was all about the bad old days when Mafia "families" were submachine gunning each other in classic Cadillacs, and its premiere harked back to the good old days when searchlights stabbed the Hollywood sky to honor the world's Glamour People. Except that this premiere was on Broadway. Raquel Welch was there, and Ali MacGraw and Bob Evans, Elliott Gould, Polly Bergen, Jack Nicholson, Paula Prentiss, Rona Barrett, Andy Williams. There were plenty of Kennedys-Eunice and Sargent Shriver, Jean and Stephen Smith, Pat Lawford -plus a sizable slither of socialites. But the superstar...