Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meyer's approach is best illustrated by the few sodden moments when he loses his way and tries to inject some social meaning into the film. Meyer apparently got the idea during the last half of the shooting that Vixen should touch on some Major Issues of the Day, like racial tension, the War, the draft, revolution, etc. He's not too good at dealing with these ideas, and he ended up dumping all his social messages on one character: a black motorcyclist, who left America because of the draft and who nearly hijacks Mr. Vixen's plane to Cuba...
Some of the effects of this preparatory brainwashing are already apparent. A number of persons have remarked to me that they are relieved to see Mr. Hyland make a distinction between property and persons: bomb buildings only after 5, he writes, when the people who work there are more likely to have gone home. Similarly, many students and faculty have comforted themselves with the thought that the Harvard-Radcliffe SDS have condemned the Weatherman assault on the CFIA an act of violence against working people. Yet there is nothing in the morality of Mr. Hyland or the local SDS that...
...Meyer's genius is that he doesn't let any-complicating factors-like "redeeming social value" or "plot line"-get in his way as he steams toward his goal of producing a sexy movie. A brief outline of Vixen's action is an instructive example...
While most films would try to clog these episodes with heavy themes-like marital tension or incest or lesbianism-Meyer light-heartedly plays them for sheer sexy fun. Vixen and her brother don't talk about social taboos or family relations. They don't talk about anything. They just grin a lot and yell as they move into the movie's memorable shower stall-chase scene...
...policy advice is dominated by a tacit assumption pervasive among social scientists in general, namely that their role is to devise solutions to problems without overstepping the institutional and political confines of contemporary American society, and without violating our carbon copy image for what a good society would be like in other countries...