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...redeemer appears to offer even brief hope of change. The only appealing character is an individualist named Archer (Mick Ford), whose rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand into the system, but not the monkey wrench that would bring it to a halt. There is also a hard case named Carlin (Ray Winstone), whose rise from victim to "Daddy" (the inmate who rules over his section) provides the plot with such movement as it has. There is an implication that Carlin's rule...
...sounds of Chinese singing and musical instruments, the American organizers have chosen the most come-at-able works in the repertory, cutting even those when they seemed to go on too long. One that did not need to be cut by more than five minutes is the comic The Monkey King Fights the 18 Lo Hans (demons), which is taken from a legendary novel. The Monkey King, according to the story, has been making a nuisance of himself in heaven; for his misdeeds he is consigned to a fiery furnace. Like Brer Rabbit in another legend, that seems...
...Jade Emperor appeals for help to the Buddha, who sends 18 demons to put an end to all the monkeyshines. The Monkey King (Li Yuanchun) meets them all and, in pantomime scenes worthy of Chaplin and Keaton, sends them tumbling. He takes one demon's weapon and twirls it on one finger, like a gyroscope; he grabs another one and flicks it away with his heel. No one in heaven or earth can touch this hilarious spirit of riot and disorder, and peace comes only when he finds his way home to the Flower-Fruit Mountain. Equally funny...
Peter Sellers spoke English, of course. He spoke 20 dialects of British English; and in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, he used 3 different Southern accents. He knew how to say "rhume" instead of "room," and "minkey" rather than "monkey." He knew that it was funny to fall into a moat with his clothes on. And he knew that it wasn't really funny for him to play the president of the United States and say, "You can't fight here--this is the War Room...
...level, the tour was a cavalcade of Africanization. The crowds in Brazzaville, Congo, shook gourd rattles and castanets, waved palm branches, bouquets, homemade crucifixes. In a church near Kinshasa, old women trilled highpitched lullaloos, and the officiating Belgian priest wore a monkey-skin headdress with the tail running down his back. Among the gifts presented to John Paul in Nairobi: primitive paintings, an animal-skin cape, an antelope horn, daggers, a spear and shield, and a tribal headdress that he gamely donned...