Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, life in the bush rarely resembles literature in the hand. Barley is viewed by all as a harmless idiot, a source of money and vast amusement. He is misled by most locals and never learns whether they are lying or merely find Western epistemology elusive. Barley makes every possible mistake. He selects a youthful interpreter in a culture contemptuous of the young. He talks to women, a lunatic method of gathering information, according to the Dowayo tradition. He refuses to take off his white skin at night and stubbornly remains convinced that chameleons are not poisonous but cobras...
...lisping curate is straight out of Life of Brian; I waited all evening for him to say "Welease Woger!", but it never came. Rodney Hudson plays the chamberlain Boyet with liveried style and an infectious sense of fun. John Bottoms is anything but Dull as the pinch-cheeked idiot bobby, proving once again he may be the best thing going...
...heal his face after the razor has left it as dry as Utah. This is not a man who will accidentally leave a spot of shaving cream on his carlobe and not notice it until 4 p.m., by which time countless people will have determined that be is an idiot...
What kind of idiot could get himself into this fix? What actor could portray such an idiot? The answer to the second question (Dudley Moore) spends two and a half hours answering the first in Blake Edwards' latest romantic celluloid conniption, Micki and Maude...
...this theme in Edwards's work is that his characters can get mighty boring mighty fast. Even the protean Peter Sellers could not save the Panther films from a sense of mechanical flatness that was a reflection of the monotony of the protagonist's character. Clouseau was an original idiot, nothing more. When Sellers played a truly vacuous character in Hal Ashby's Being There, he could give the film an ironic tenderness that the Panther faces could have used. Perhaps Edwards, whose films have no other virtue than that they are funny, can only imagine men with similar single...