Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frequently, the crazy machine works because of its voluptuous imagery. When Ron is wounded in Viet Nam, he collapses backward, and from his mouth a stream of blood spurts like the fountain of lost youth. The hospital sequence is an insider's tour of hell, and the Mexican brothel is an endless emotional purgatory...
Stone's canniest directorial decision was to choose Cruise. The actor remakes himself in the film, trashing preconceptions, showing a range that astonishes. Ron's furious arguments with his family become primal screams of frustrated love. In the Mexican scenes, where Ron meets a prostitute who treats him gently, Cruise's tearful face expresses wonderfully conflicting feelings of joy and fear, peace and release. He makes sense of the story even when the movie doesn't. No wonder that at the end of the filming, Kovic gave | Cruise his Bronze Star. "He gave it to Tom for bravery," Stone says...
Despite the tension, the scene became like something from a TV situation comedy, with the rebels enjoying a feast of hotel food and the U.S. soldiers resolutely glowering from behind their barricades. Neither side made an attempt to threaten the other. It was, said one of the advisers, a "Mexican standoff," during which they talked to the rebels periodically. "At times it was friendly, at times tense," said another American. Finally, the Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Gregorio Rosa Chavez, mediated the release of the occupants of the hotel and the escape of the rebels. The U.S. soldiers, though, refused...
...example, in a recent lecture on his book The Old Ones of New Mexico, Professor Coles read a long section about an elderly Mexican woman's thoughts as she approached the end of her life. Then he asked the audience to think about the differences between their lives and her life: differences in culture, language, geographic location, social status, education. As is customary in this class, he asked for reflection on differences, not similarities; he asked his audience to create a distance between themselves and the people they meet in the readings. He doesn't seem to expect the students...
...little fragmented, and Thoreau (Josh Frost) ditsy rather than wise. But in the course of the performance, the play takes form. Lawrence and Lee use a series of flashbacks explaining Thoreau's civil disobedience and his getting out of jail, as well as a dream sequence involving the Mexican war. Also, various characters, such as Emerson and Thoreau's mother, appear to say things from the past, as voices from Thoreau's memory...