Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult to resist comparison with the book, it's also a challenge not to remember another recent attempt at putting "Emma" on the big screen: "Clueless," resplendent with Beverly Hills bird-brains. Some logic might dictate that "Clueless" changes the locale and pace of the novel so radically--Emma would say "Whatever" only if followed by a four-line sentence sprinkled with semi-colons--that it couldn't possibly be a more loyal version. But where "Clueless" successfully looked to a new world ripe for the axing, McGrath's "Emma" creates an uncomfortable mix by updating an old world with...
...actors ease for the most part into the set, often flat characters that surround the charged plot line, with occasional exceptions. Lawyer Jake, despite death threats or a torched house, persists in defending, against all logic, and McConaughey's boyish good looks and exquisite hair carry him through admirably. Yet it is often more compelling to watch Kiefer Sutherland, a brother of a slain redneck, encountering evil greater than himself during his Klan warm-up meeting, or Chris Cooper (again as a sheriff, markedly different from his "Lone Star" role) grimacing his way through shock and pain...
...marriage advocates propose to permit the marriage of, say, two brothers, or of a mother and her (adult) daughter? If not, by what reason of logic or morality...
Alan Ayckbourn's book builds, with deft comic logic, from a tangle of mistaken identities to the climactic remark, "There's a cat-burgling pig in my bedroom!" Lloyd Webber's tunes are inventive and sweetly chipper. The effect is of two precocious lads putting on a genial public-school charade. By Jeeves may not be lighter than air, but it's surely lighter than Guerre...
...Philipe and Tom's rivalry and being utterly unable to fight back. The weakness of her character and even of her facial features is evident when compared to Tom and Philipe's strengths, and though one feels sorry for her helplessness, one can't help but see the Darwinian logic in her permanent victimhood...