Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dark Mood. The movie does not state this message directly. Instead, it sifts through a succession of exquisitely made thrill sequences. Early on, the mood is farcical: Waldo loosening the wheels of a rival barnstormer so that he must crash-land in a pond; Waldo disastrously trying to perfect the crowd pleasing trick of transferring from moving car to low-flying plane by means of a suspended rope ladder...
Thereafter the mood darkens. A girl wing-walker literally dies of fright. A friend crashes while testing a new plane, and Waldo is permanently grounded for buzzing the crowd that gawks at the man's death by fire. In the end there is nothing left for Waldo but the ultimate commercialization of his love for his craft: stunt-flying in a Hollywood war movie. There, ironically, he finally gets his chance to fly against Kessler, and, by turning a fake dogfight into the real thing, to pass into legend himself...
...mood was already very ugly. I nursed a quart of beer and a smoke in the back row with my friend and an 8-year-old who knew every line of every Stooges movie (I swear it) and looked around for a cop, or Derek cop, or something...
Artaud also believed in exploiting fully the effects produced by lights, sounds, costumes, and the set. This production valiantly tries to remain faithful to Artaud's stage directions, and although Barbara Kirschten's costumes are very well conceived, some effects like the candies enhance the mood, but most cause more embarrassing technical difficulties than they're worth...
...There's a very exciting mood on campus," said Kim Schoenholtz, one of five representatives of a student coalition formed by various campus groups. The coalition presented a proposal on the formation of an advisory committee to the Corporation's Committee on Advisors and Executives on Friday...