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...betrayals--then customized with camera style. Strapped to a car fender, or sauntering at ankle level through a rowdy party, or tracking smoothly down a long bar counter (and over a passed-out customer), the Coens' camera is a participant in the action, and worlds hipper than anyone on-screen. "Hi, I'm here," it as much as says, "and I'm soooo smart." It is too; it creates elegant riddles of space and time, then solves them with an originality that hits the viewer like a rabbit- punch line. The lovers repose in bed, a turnstile fan lazing above...
Despite all this armament, He-Man's producers point out that on-screen mayhem is held to a minimum. When the show was being developed, Filmation's educational consultant, Stanford University Communications Professor Donald Roberts, urged that none of the characters should get killed or "really hurt." In the midst of warfare, He-Man usually deplores violence. Thus, says Roberts, battle scenes are "really antibattle scenes...
...million miles an hour." Robert Wachs, Murphy's comanager since 1979, gauges the actor's appeal this way: "People want to gift wrap him and take him home." Joe Piscopo, Murphy's partner for 3 1/2 years on Saturday Night Live, says that "Eddie is actually playing himself on-screen. He manages to be totally natural and relaxed. I'd also like him to try something more serious, though, something with Scorcese or Coppola. I know he can pull it off, but I'm not sure he does...
...On-Screen Violence...
...Shepherd, as Gil Ivy, a good husband and kind father who buckles under the threat of losing his farm, is much more believable, if less heroic, than his on-screen wife. While the script leaves Gil's character largely undeveloped. Shepherd does a marvelous job with what part he has, bringing a freshness and honesty to his lines that are sorely missing from the rest of the film...