Word: inventive
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...remembered that Thackeray's Barry Lyndon is, unlike Kubrick's adaptation, an eminently comprehensible book. Kubrick's problems can be seen in that he had to go outside Thackeray and invent the only scene with real suspense, the final duel. Kubrick has always altered the material he films--but in the past he has enriched it; in this case he has imposed an artificial anemia...
...also essential to his work. For one thing, he finds it impossible to invent an entirely original story, something drawn out of his own experience or fantasy life. Indeed, the creation of fiction awes him. "It is one of the most phenomenal human achievements," he says. "And I have never done it." Instead, he must do "detective work - find out about the things about which I have no direct experience." These, of course, offer metaphors in which to cloak such observations - they are never direct mes sages - that he cares to share with the world...
...setting is a Montreal ghetto, around 1925. The protagonist is an extraordinarily appealing little boy named David (Jeffrey Lynas). Struggling for possession of his young mind are his father (Len Birman) and his grandfather (Yossi Yadin). The former is a hustler, determined to abandon traditional Jewish ways and invent his way upward (creaseless pants, expandable cuff links−so you can roll up your sleeves without unlinking them). The latter is a sweet-spirited, loving junk dealer, who is equally determined to imbue David with the belief that an Orthodox faith can still serve successfully as a guide to existence...
...Institute Orchestra surgingly in Nos. 6, 7, 8, 22 and 35 on the second and third. It was enough to demonstrate that the Austrian court composer who had once dined at the servants' table was one of the most astounding revolutionaries in all musical history. Haydn did not invent the idea of the symphony. But when he picked it up, the symphony was the most innocuous of musical forms: a fast/slow/fast outgrowth of the Italian overture. When he laid it down, it was a blend of wit, speed, drama and, yes, surprise...
...Well, what exactly do these pants look like?" Mr. Caball's son Bruce asked. He knew very well what they looked like. His father already had described them to him, adding that "These pants are a disaster for Cleaver. I've seen writers invent plenty of ways of keeping from writing, but these pants are a disaster for Cleaver." But Bruce wanted to hear Cleaver describe the pants...