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...Lewis, the actor is much less convincing in scenes requiring fear or tension. Dahl also described Zahn as dramatically gifted and incredibly funny. However, while comic relief is a device welcome to thrillers, many scenes dominated by Zahn’s admittedly funny comedy divert the path of the plot??s progression. Sobieski, whose talent and demeanor greatly impressed her director, is rarely allowed to showcase her gifts in the movie; her character enters the story too late and contributes too little...
...version of the tragedy is at first a bit confusing due to the plot??s completely different point of view. A Counterfeit Presentment is more the story of Horatio, one of Hamlet’s advisors, than anyone else. The play begins with Horatio wanting not only to tell Hamlet’s tale, but also to confess his own sins. It is here that Funke has incorporated a historical element in to the plot; Horatio tells his story to Saxo the Grammarian, the first writer to enter the real “Amleth” into...
Such is the message—and the basic plot??of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Set to the libretto of Mozart’s fellow Freemason Emanuel Schikaneder, it offers such an idealistic view of human nature and interpersonal relationships that it seems in danger of being laughed to scorn by modern audiences. But on the March 17 closing night performance of its recent Die Zauberflöte production, New York’s Metropolitan Opera demonstrated just how powerful and convincing Mozart’s final opera really...