Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher a level of achievement than the plot-in a narrative film, how could they be? Korty's editing and camerawork go in either for slap-happy pastoral or flash-backing exposition. There are only a few instances when writer-director-photographer Korty shows any flair for metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting vertically on the horizon seen through a window. And when Danny chops wood, the sun produces flare effects...
...linemen in purple shirts named Eller, Page, Larsen and Marshall, holding off the mighty Los Angeles Rams three times from the two-yard line. Or about Running Back Gale Sayers, a Homeric combination of speed and skill and strength and courage, with only a wrecked knee (to mix a metaphor) as his Achilles heel...
...historical film as a metaphor for contemporary ills has become an overworked convenience. The Great White Hope failed because it tried to use the tragic plight of Heavyweight Jack Johnson to illustrate the ugliness of today's racial strife. In its bloody account of an 1864 massacre of a Cheyenne tribe, Soldier Blue announced in labored fashion that the U.S. military is more barbaric than it cares to admit. But whatever their weaknesses, both films were at least rooted in historical truth. Burn!, by the usually brilliant Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers), lacks even that validity...
Hedged Bet. To round out the metaphor Walker is hired ten years later by the British sugar company that controls the island. His job: destroy the guerrilla leader he has created. At the end, of course, Dolores is martyred and Walker is destroyed...
Wills' Nixon is a metaphor for "an older, and in many ways noble, America, made up of much sacrifice and anger." Yet Nixon's ascension to power, says Wills, is precisely a measure of the nation's failure, the bankruptcy of the Horatio Alger virtues and the supply-and-demand marketplace ethics that built this country...