Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return to romanticism, a yearning for years past, when life was simpler and values stronger. This yearning is expressed both in the film Love Story and in the personality of its star, Ali MacGraw. Senior Editor Peter Martin and Correspondent Mary Cronin first met her in Hollywood last June. They were immediately struck, as Martin says, "by her great enthusiasm for life. She takes you back to the time in college when all the good romantic things were within your grasp...
...director could have elicited the look of pride on the veteran actor's face as he hugged his son during a break on the Hollywood set. John Ethan Wayne, 8, had just stolen a scene during the filming of The Million-Dollar Kidnaping in the role of grandson to his real father, John Wayne, 63, and Actress Maureen O'Hara. Said Richard Boone, cast as the leader of the bandits who kidnap the boy: "Duke, you and I know acting's hard, but nobody told the boy-he just went in there...
...MEMORIES of Underdevelopment tries to save itself by criticizing Hollywood narratives: they show the same sounds and actions over and over again "like a broken record," the same scenes of sexual play, the same sentimental notions. But Memories has been copied from the same record. There's no need to make that kind of movie in a revolutionary society. If you want to show people how bourgeois protagonists act, or demonstrate the circularity of bourgeois idealism and the paralyzing nature of sentimental conceptions of life, you can run old Hollywood movies for them. In fact that's preferable because...
...there too it cops out. It includes phony pieces of self-criticism: a pseudo-reflexive section wherein Elena, wanting to become an actress, has the hero take her to ICAIC, the Cuban film institute, where he just happens to know a director who has found some pieces of old Hollywood films cut out by Battista's censors, and who wants to incorporate them into a new film he's making-he doesn't know quite how, his film will be a "collage" of social bits and pieces; and thus Alea manages to slip in a description of his own film...
...that's the condition of Memories. And that's why it's reactionary: it doesn't take an approach that would help its designers or its audience understand its subject and change it; it makes personal and social conditions instead of laying them open. It is, in fact, another Hollywood film...