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...against the wall, MGM. They have taken James Simon Kunen's straightforward memoirs of the 1968 Columbia riots and turned them into a homogenized and dishonest movie about student politics whose central thesis is that the kids are only in it for the action -the sexy action. The Strawberry Statement has about as much to do with Kunen's book as the film The Ten Commandments had to do with the tablets...
Directed by Stuart Hagmann and written by Israel Horovitz, Strawberry Statement is based on James Kunen's informal memoirs of the Columbia University rebellion of 1968. "I want to reach Sam and Samantha in Aurora, Illinois," Hagmann says. "I want people to say, That's just like my kids.' " If Sam and Samantha say anything of the sort, it will be because their kids have taken up campus revolution for no more discernible reasons than sex and excitement. Despite endless minutes of sirens, screams, clubs and tear gas at the finale, Strawberry Statement only manages to make...
Like James Kunen's Strawberry Statement, Do It is a disjointed collection of half digested thoughts. But unlike Kunen, Rubin expresses none of the doubts about the right course of action or the reasons behind the radicalization of students today. He says that students are the oppressed class, yet students, especially here, are the very ones who are being trained to lead American society. Their predecessors at Harvard are the ones against whom the revolution is being made. Rubin does not explain how students are repressed (except to say that they are forced to wear suits, again a theatrical example...
...politics; his not-so-halcyon undergraduate days at Harvard; and finally, his future plans, among which are the coming of The World's Greatest Plays (about the world's greatest hero) and his screenplay for The Strawberry Statement, the American entry to the Cannes Film Festival, adapted from James Kunen's articles...
...hell I'm doing with film; I'm just in it." "Being in film" for Horovitz involves writing the screenplay for The Strawberry Statement for the Cames Film Festival and work in progress on a film called Speed is of the Essence about amphetamines. The story of how James Kunen got to the Cannes Film Festival via the CRIMSON and Horovitz is simply uncomplicated and improbable. "I was sought after to do movies. I saw Kunen's CRIMSON ar-ticle and got it to an agent to make it into a movie. The movie has little to do with...