Word: moreau
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...complex and meta could easily turn into high-concept mush, but the many characters play off one another so deftly that instead of one obscuring the other, they illuminate the strange subtexts they have in common. At one point Moore and O'Neill bring in the mad scientist Dr. Moreau (as in The Island of--yet another bad movie), and the grotesque talking animals Moreau breeds become a sinister take on Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows and the talking rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, as well as--this is virtuosity in action, folks--the real-life 19th...
...movie?s plot hews closely to the book?s. There the heroine was Julie Killeen (the killer colleen); here, Julie Kohler (pronounced ?col?re,? the French word for anger). As Julie, Jeanne Moreau shows no emotion as she executes these men (with a push, a poison, suffocation, an arrow, a knife). The love that spurs her on is not so much post-coital as post-mortem. ?I?m already dead,? she says. ?I died the day he did. When I?m done I?ll join...
...freedom and experimentation became his shtick. It's an inherited trait. His grandfather Al Hansen was a member of the European artists' collective Fluxus, which specialized in Dadaist performance pieces. But Beck draws inspiration from contemporary sources too. "Brando was in some movie"--1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau--"where he's in a white gown, white face paint, and he's wearing a hat that's an ice bucket, and there's a midget dressed exactly like him on his shoulder," he says. "And he's acting like it's Shakespeare! But it threw me. He's fearless...
...comes as no surprise that moviegoers these days are desperate for escapism. If that mood holds, From Hell, opening this week, may be just what the doctor ordered. Especially if the doctor's name is Jekyll or Moreau. From Hell is Hollywood's latest search for Jack the Ripper. It stars Johnny Depp as an opium-addicted Victorian cop and Heather Graham as one of the prostitutes stalked by the madman in London's low-rent Whitechapel district in 1888. It's a shocking movie, to be sure, but this is its most unexpected twist: it is directed...