Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always been a popular--yet usually fruitless--pastime for filmmakers, as any views of last summer's pathetic reworking of the 1948 French classic Breathless can attest to Even superstud Richard Gere couldn't save Breathless flaccid plot. And in The Bounty, even fine performances by Australian hearthrob Mel Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both films purport...
...problem is not with the actors. Anthony Hopkins plays Bligh with neurotically coiled intensity, while in the only strong scene he has, Mel Gibson, as Mr. Christian, shows himself capable of expressing with anguished force the conflict between duty and decency that has been tearing at him. The trouble stems from the crude truncation of a script that began many years ago as blueprint for a two-part David Lean epic. Originally the idea must have been to free the story of its mythical and melodramatic encrustations and get at something like the historical truth. The finished film offers fragmentary...
...villages. To find their proper polling table, voters were required to consult posted lists; few were able to find their names, even with the help of poll officials. As voters wandered back and forth in 100° temperatures, tempers flared. "This shows disrespect for the people," said Antonio Meléndez, a bearded mechanic who spent five hours in the stadium without casting his ballot. "We have been made to suffer for no good reason...
...little to do with white people to believing that some whites could help in the process of change. This parallels the change in Blacks' struggle for human and civil rights in this country, shown most noticeably in the Rainbow coalition theme of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's and Mel King's campaigns. Blacks have moved from a protest-oriented mode to action through the judicial and political systems. But inequalities persist and the call for unification Malcolm X began seems to fall on deaf ears...
...history of such maneuvers. He has become the most recognized Black leader since the Civil Rights Movement, without running or holding any political office. When his Operation PUSH was under investigation for questionable financial shuffling, where was Jackson? Lending his support to Black mayoral candidates Harold Washington. Mel King and Wilson Goode, so that their successes would reflect upon him. Jackson has mastered the politician's genius for being in the right place at the right time...