Word: phallically
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Ever since King Kong aged enough to be a "classic," aficionados have argued over its implicit motifs. Kong's fall from the world's largest phallic symbol has led some to term the film a parable of unfulfilled sexuality. Others, noting his blackness and her whiteness, have damned the movie as racist. (Aside from its more abstruse symbolism, the film has a Chinese ship's cook named--you guessed it--Charlie. And Kong's New York is devoid of blacks, and his Asian island natives are Africans.) Not to mention the symbolic revolt of the worker, as played by exploited...
...entire mode of storytelling--a mosaic held together by the director's editing--is so self-propelled that nothing but action or obligatory dialogue becomes an integral part of the story. John Barry's production design and Russell Hagg's art direction drop sexual decorations and phallic sculptures in the midst of sterile modern architecture: a vain attempt to indict a Zeitgeist through innuendo. The gracelessness of the photography, however, is perhaps the most telling aspect of Mr. Kubrick's growing arrogance as a director. In vain, we wait for some formal structures to emerge from the succession of images...
...They denounce Freud and his notion of the superior role of the vagina. Certainly women are entitled to any sort of orgasm they like. But girls who are now being enjoined to "Think clitoris!" are being sold a mechanistic view of sex that is almost as dehumanizing as the phallic consciousness of Playboy...
...French professor told me that marijuana would be better for me than tobacco, but I hate the taste." New York City: "Very phallic." America: "You are close to the real thing-democracy. But, ah -right now you are not in very good shape." Her five-year marriage to Moviemaker Jules Dassin: "I love Dassin the director. I love Dassin the writer. I love him for his blue eyes. Julie and I quarrel all the time. Quarreling-that's the best part of loving...
...mastery of perversion and murder. Angela Lansbury as the Countess von Ornstein nostalgically bewails the passing of "real men"-that stalwart Germanic breed in direct lineage from Attila the Hun and Barbarossa. In a world of "upstarts, the American tourists and plastic dirndls," she craves submission to a genuinely phallic male like Conrad. She also craves money...