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...male cadet. The exercise requires the cadets to run back and forth with a fellow cadet piggy-backed or in a fireman’s hold over their shoulder.One female cadet struggles to reach the finish line, and the waiting men cheer encouragement. There’s plenty of laughter, but, considering how the cadets are holding each other, none of it is especially awkward. Only one female cadet grins self-consciously as her male partner cradles her against his chest with competent arms.A DUAL LIFE One thing conspicuously missing from these male-female interactions is flirtation. This...
...Sullivan tells him, “I’m not letting you off easy.” Patiently, he guides him through the correct answer. Occasionally, Sullivan jokingly responds to a wrong answer by barking, “Push-ups!” There’s more laughter between Sullivan and different cadets in a discussion of dates for the upcoming military ball, hosted jointly with Air Force and Navy ROTC. Sullivan reminds the male cadets to get a hair cut if they need one for the ball, to shave and, again teasing, to shower...
...solution is novel, weaving seamlessly between the distant past (shot in black and white like the Thomson photograph) and a Technicolor Dreamtime, all of which is overlaid by Gulpilil's witty commentary. "Once upon a time, in a land far away," he begins, before breaking into a gale of laughter...
JOHNSON: The other thing is longevity. We're hitting a point where well-to-do women are hitting 85. A lot of women reasonably expect to live to 90. I'm not going to say how old she is [laughter], but my mom is at this age where the kids have all gone to college and her career is at full throttle, and she's quite reasonably expecting to have another decade when she's just at the top of her game...
...film, when it reaches its zenith of gore and guts, you can’t help but succumb to laughter at the ridiculousness...