Word: hollywoodized
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...There is, to begin with, the film?s score by Hollywood composer Danny Elfman, which would pass virtually without notice in a fictional melodrama, but which here rings and thunders with portent. These are accompanied by sound effects of dubious provenance. Then there are the inserts, like the famous deck of playing cards, carrying pictures of Saddam Hussein and his leading henchmen, which was distributed to American troops in Iraq, Images of some of these cards, very handsomely photographed against black, fly artfully, abstractly across the screen in a manner that is distinctly at odds with the essential grubbiness...
...strengths as art, politics and soap opera, Standard Operating Procedure will reach only the art-house audience--a small fraction of the Harold & Kumar crowd. Yet Morris' argument is pure populist Hollywood. He says the grunts were the little guys who took the fall while the brass got off free. Harold & Kumar, oddly, believes our boys can be saved by a higher power: the President of the United States...
...their heads or leashed like dogs--is harrowing and haunting. It's also spooky how poised and telegenic the perps are; two, Javal Davis and Sabrina Harman, could easily fit into the cast of The O.C. But the ultimate anomaly of Morris' movie is how closely the story mirrors Hollywood melodrama...
Farewell to a Hollywood Legend...
...thanks to Richard Corliss for his essay on Charlton Heston [April 21]. If anyone under 40 wants to know why their older friends and family have such low regard for current Hollywood actors, Heston is one reason. He was a symbol of how America thought of itself: energetic, courageous, practical, resilient. No one in Hollywood can take his place. R.W. Harrington, DE PERE...