Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of fighting an alien race of insects isn't even an original one. The movie is based on the Robert Heinlein book of the same name, although one might claim with equal credibility, and affront to the author, that Batman Forever was based on Crime and Punishment. Heinlein, a masterful and highly respected science fiction author, created a futuristic republic in which people had to join the military to be deemed citizens, and the concept of civil responsibility was a matter of great importance and controversy. This, juxtaposed with the fact that the race was at war with insects...
...idea of blood becomes a linking metaphor, a image that can be used to mean both the spirit and soul, and the body itself. Some of Garcia Lorca's most beautiful images derive from this juxtaposition. For instance, trying to describe the sensations she's experiencing, the newly pregnant Maria says to Yerma, "Have you ever held a live bird, tight, in your hand? Well, it's the same, but in your blood...
...fact that "God," evidently arbitrarily, refuses to help Yerma calls sharply into question the idea of a just and merciful God; the notion that Yerma ought to accept her "fate" as a childless woman is caught up in her husband's insistence that she accept her "woman's place" within the walls of her house, never straying outside to the wild world that tempts her mysteriously. Garcia Lorca's complaints against the oppression of women come through sharply in some of the ideas which Yerma herself embodies: when Juan suggests that she resign herself to being childless, she reproaches...
...reducing them to tears. Then he gives the befuddled youths his wallet, letting them run off, shouting "I want that back at the end of the show." But, even this gag would get old by the end of the film, so the movie is not solely powered by this idea that life only affords one take...
...idea of hanging the Blue Boy in the alcove," Herschbach says, referring to the famous painting by Thomas Gainsborough. "Late one night a couple of my students and I hung it. [Woodward] didn't like it. He replaced it with a note...