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Second, once you do notice us, kindly refrain from cutting off our path away from your frenetic domain. Crosswalks are not actually street art; we have a quaint custom in this state whereby both horse-drawn and horseless carriages must yield to the crossing foot soldier. There are few sadder sights in the Square than that of a lonely student waiting politely for a car to pause for him on Mass. Ave. At even such tender young ages, we are forced to become hardened kamikazes on every perilous trip to the Harvard Box Office...
...This is my vow: that my children's children will someday watch moving pictures in the back of vast horseless carriages that also have iceboxes...
...well-written and well-acted characters is ultimately undermined by too many self-consciously inventive film tricks.Much like the film itself, Harlan Fairfax Caruthers (Edward Norton), the movie’s drawling, gun slinging, cowpoke protagonist, is difficult to take without a grain of salt. The idea of a horseless, homeless cowboy roaming around the urban and suburban areas of the California central valley rightfully elicits some doubt and curiosity in the film’s cast of characters. Where defiant teen Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood, “Thirteen”) sees excitement and intrigue, her father (David Morse...
There's Henry Ford, who perfected ways to mass-produce the horseless carriages developed in Germany by Gottlieb Daimler and others. The car became the most influential consumer product of the century, bringing with it a host of effects good and bad: more personal freedom, residential sprawl, social mobility, highways and shopping malls, air pollution (though the end of the noxious pollution produced by horses) and mass markets for mass-produced goods...
...process that screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director Roger Michell (Persuasion) allow to develop confidently, digressively. William, for example, finds himself obliged to pretend he's a journalist for a fox-hunting magazine interviewing all those connected with Anna's latest release, a horseless sci-fi epic, at a press junket. On another occasion, he's mistaken for the room-service waiter and patronized by her movie-star boyfriend (a funny, uncredited Alec Baldwin, trying hard for noblesse oblige and delightfully missing the note...