Word: louts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rita, naturally, falls in love with one of them. He is, naturally, a lout. But bad as he is, he makes Rita seem less listless and mousy. Margo vacillates between jealousy and the urge to tell Rita what favors she must grant lest she drive him off. Nellie seethes and tries not to notice. Nothing good can come of this, and nothing does...
Dark Laughter. Robert Shaw as the bullet-headed lout begins by screaming something as subtle as "Shut up, for Christ's sake!" Zoe Caldwell asks with a desperate pleading, "Oh, when is he going to die?" Starting at such a level of anger, it is difficult for the players to find much new emotional territory to cover, and they do not. Strindberg intended moments of dark laughter in The Dance of Death, but the audience laughs with a bewildered edginess, as if not quite sure that it should...
...saloon sequence. Golden, black-shirted and white-tied, delivers a classic big band blues arrangement of a my-baby-done-me-wrong torcher, and does it in phonetic English as the camera roams over the crowd, Vegas in the South of France, eagerly fondling waitress Camille, while her lout husband seethes. From there, Truffaut films a short Western sequence. It's as if his characters had been dropped onto a John Ford backlot and allowed to pursue each other at random. These scenes are regularly scheduled...
...Virginia's case, the inchoate tangle of emotion began in the nursery. There were four older half siblings. One girl was totally deranged and eventually was institutionalized. A half brother, George Duckworth, was a handsome lout who began molesting Virginia when he was 19 and she was six. She had two full brothers, Thoby and Adrian, whose departure for the nation's best schools she bitterly resented, and one sister, Vanessa, who was easily the person closest to her throughout her life...
...fundamental technique is to place actors, trained and otherwise, in roughly planned situations, and to let them improvise freely thence forty. In his first film several Mafiosi are holed up in a room waiting to be rubbed lout; the actors are Mr. Mailer himself and some cronies, and they play affectionately with guns, bottles, women, and each other...