Word: machiavellis
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...only to carry off this scene, there must be something in Richard to dominate the play and all its characters. This Alan Bates lacks. Less butcher than ballet master, less Machiavelli than Mack the Knife, Bates prances where Richard pounces, smirks where Richard sneers. While melodrama is often a parody of tragedy, it cannot stand the added parody of kidding itself, which is what Bates does. The kingdom of this play needs a masterful Richard more than Richard needs a horse...
...worry. By the end of the novel, she realizes that Christ was a genius, of course, but no more so than Mohammed or Buddha or Machiavelli, so the best thing to do is go out and get a job. Another heroine (as we learn from her "New Angles on Life notebook") is mildly inspired by a sermon, but finds her salvation in a brass bed with an old friend who happened to be in church that morning. It's good to dismiss it all like that, but don't admit the symbolism--unless it's at the artistic level...
...Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession: 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth...
MANDRAGOLA. A cool Renaissance beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) defends her virtue to the next-to-last gasp but turns out to be a good loser in Italian Director Alberto Lattuada's lively version of Machiavelli's comedy...
MANDRAGOLA. Machiavelli's ribald Renaissance classic about a Florentine lady's virtue, directed with plenty of low period humor by Italy's Alberto Lattuada and played as high comedy by Rosanna Schiaffino and a sporty cast...