Word: mopes
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...oddest of star commodities in Hollywood: a Lamborghini that few people know how to drive. Her soft good looks, easy glamour and megawatt, kilo-tooth smile give her a box-office appeal unique among today's actresses. Yet filmmakers seem blind to these qualities. Roberts so often has to mope and so rarely gets to be her famous radiant self...
...Harvard isn't concentrating on any other long-term goals, and it doesn't want to just mope around and wait for the loaded version team to reemerge...
...Camille, but they don't get to do Bette Davis. Rudnick believes that "adding to the gloom doesn't help anyone. In fact, you should be constantly striving for the reverse. You don't want to look up from a hospital bed and see people constantly crying." A mope is a most ineffectual nurse...
...Genie. Animator Randy Cartwright faced a daunting one: to create a character, the Magic Carpet, literally out of whole cloth. The Carpet has no head, no voice, and mere tassels for hands and feet. Yet it has a personality that puts most live- action stars to shame. It can mope, strut, cringe. It is a gentleman and a matchmaker. It holds and kisses Jasmine's hand. It makes zigzag stairs of itself at the end of Aladdin's ride with Jasmine and, as she stands on her balcony, coaxes the lad up to kissing level with the princess...
...times, when Henrik's dour spirit takes control of the narrative, Intentions threatens to become a mope opera. The film also lacks the intensity that the Swedish master lent his own projects; this is Bergman without Bergman. But it is also Bergman plus August. Like Fanny and Alexander, this film is both worshipful and critical of its heroes. Like Pelle, it sprawls on a canvas of long-ago wealth and want, love and anxiety...