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Jeremy C. Miller confronts the anti-Semitism problem by playing the hated Shylock with a measure of dignity. Portrayals of Shylock have a tendency to paint him as a bloodthirsty, raving madman, and while Miller's Shylock is appropriately vengeful and merciless, he also rarely loses his cool. He demands the justice and respect he deserves as a man but is denied because of his religion. He pleads. "If You prick us [Jews]. do we not bleed...
...leader evidently shaped his regime into more of a one-man show than his fellow coup leaders found tolerable. Following Sankara's execution, Radio Ouagadougou accused him of having built up a "concentration of power" and of harboring the "ambitions of a madman." In seizing power last week, Compaore, 36, the Minister of State and Justice, used the same special commando unit he placed at Sankara's disposal in 1983. Western diplomats in Burkina Faso expect him to be a less flamboyant leader than Sankara but to continue most of his policies. Despite the death of their author, the national...
...just wrong but dangerous to underestimate the rationality of regimes that profess the craziest of ends. The very designation "crazy state" inclines those sure of their own sanity to let down their guard. Europe catastrophically underestimated Hitler because he was plainly a madman. That he was. It did not prevent him from conquering Europe...
Although The Shining is certainly not a good example of the art of storytelling, Dewitt finds it very interesting as a study of strange camera angles. In Kubrick's hands, it often seems as if the madman were behind the camera. Among the weirdo perspectives offered here, the best is an extended shot that follows a child driving a Big Wheel through corridor after corridor of the cavernous hotel, capturing the sight and sound of the toy vehicle passing over carpet and linoleum...
...Salvador, Stone was learning to wind the cinematic mechanism until it coiled with productive tension, both on the screen and on the set. "Working with Stone was like being caught in a Cuisinart with a madman," James Woods opines. "And he felt the same about me. It was two Tasmanian devils wrestling under a blanket. But he's a sharp director. He starts with a great idea, delegates authority well, scraps like a street fighter, then takes the best of what comes out of the fracas." Says Dale Dye, the Marine captain who hazed Platoon's actors to firm them...