Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...based movies don't have to be faithful to their books--and the makers of "The Scarlet Letter" sure put this freedom to use. But by basing a film on a classic of American literature, you beg your audience to ask how and why the original has been altered. Logic (certainly not experience) tells us that producer/director Roland Joffe and screen-writer Douglas Day Stewart couldn't have wanted to make the story worse, so they must have thought that they were making it better...
...delays too long, giving the Injuns time to gallop up and save the day by attempting to slaughter all the inhabitants, starting, as luck would have it, with the malicious magistrate. Amid all the confusion of the attack, Joffe manages to sneak a cloyingly happy ending past the logic of the distracted narrative...
...this added material comes off as hackneyed as it sounds. But to give Joffe what little credit is due, a discernable logic underpins this pop-up-book montage of colonial history. He reads The Scarlet Letter as a dialogue between witches and Indians on the one hand and the Puritan colonialists on the other, between the untouched wilderness and the civilized world between our most authentic impulses and social norms. Predictably enough, he poses the question, "Who is really more civilized...
...have yet to see a cogent call for welfare reform that doesn't contain at least one serious ellipsis in its logic Usually, however--and unlike Whitman--their authors at least try to conceal such leaps of faith. --James Grimmelmann...
...since the Peninsula is willing to follow this suspect logic, will it start referring to track stars as probable athletic admits? Coming from Wyoming can be a plus--are such students probable geographic admits? Are accomplished violinists probable musician admits? What about students whose parents attended Harvard? Are they probable legacy admits? What about a Black student who plays baseball whose father attended Harvard? Is he a probable affirmative action-athletic-legacy admit? More importantly, when will Peninsula start trying to indirectly undermine the qualifications of white students? Or will only Blacks be targets...