Word: leopardize
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...large cats, is poised dangerously between two harsh worlds. Disturbed and lonely, she is treated cruelly by most of her own kind, and is drawn more and more to the large caged cats in her charge. Reality blurs, and she merges her identity with that of a sleek leopard in her care...
...exactly a typical Grant movie. He plays not his usual-an urbane husband-but a nerdy professor who tries to keep up with an airheaded socialite and her pet leopard...
Only Grant could walk down a street with a leopard following him and Katharine Hepburn yelling out the window in a high-pitched voice, "There's a leopard following you!" and handle the situation with aplomb. You just don't see too many men like that walking the streets these days. You don't see too many leopards either, but that's another point entirely...
Nigel Terry's Mortimer walks around in one scene wearing a leopard-print dressing gown that looks like Isabella ordered it for him at Victoria's Secret along with her cyan satin lingerie, which does nothing to excite her disinterested husband. When she isn't dressed in such sweet nothings, Isabella minces around in one confining Chanel-type outfit after another (there's one striking scene when she literally drips with pearls). But as in "The Age of Innocence," the clothes in "Edward II"--and their occasional removal--are invested with too much responsibility. And where do they keep these...
...Fertile Valley" at 9:30 p.m.A wealthy member of the upper class and his threesons withdraw to their country villa, where theyendulge themselves in the macabre pleasure ofidleness and perversion. Echoeing Bunuel andFerrari, the film reaches a bitter socialsymbolism through metaphoric shot compositions andsurrealist atmosphere, winning the Gold Leopard atthe Locarno and the Best Director prize at theChicago Film Festivals...