Word: muted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holly hunter, "The Piano"--Overcomes mute button and Princess Leia hairdo...
Albee is exorcising his own demons in having the dowager deny her homosexual son. Strikingly, he keeps the son mute and gives the mother her uninterrupted say. The counterpoint between his deathbed devotion and her strident evocation of a showdown years before could feel contrived. Like all of this chamber masterpiece, it is nuanced and heartbreaking...
...loutish, vicious behavior of Wolff's stepfather, played by Robert De Niro. Fried Green Tomatoes, released in 1991, was a masterpiece of artfully soft-edged propaganda, a regular Birth of a Nation of antimale bias: almost all the male characters were brutes or fools or slobs except for a mute, guardian black giant, who was a sort of eunuch figure, and a sainted brother who died an awful death when young and innocent, and a little boy who has his arm severed by a passing train. In a climactic scene, one horrible man, a whip-mean, pockmarked little sheriff, literally...
...many travelers from her country, felt the heat of an exotic climate warm the dampness of her English soul, experiencing both emotional trauma and the hint of a religious vocation. This, together with the braying fatuity of her fiance, has placed her in a conflict that renders her almost mute. She would like to be a dutiful daughter, but the effort is -- quietly, of course -- costing her her sanity...
...been mute since the age of six and for whom the piano is her only voice, is devastated by its loss. She turns to George Baines (Harvey Keitel), an illiterate neighbor of theirs who has "gone native." Baines eventually makes a deal with Stewart, trading the piano for a piece of land. As part of the deal, Ada is forced to give Baines lessons. He's not interested in learning to play, and so he offers to give Ada back her piano if she allows him to do certain things while she plays, one key for every lesson...