Word: plot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lone killer or a hired gun man? And if he was paid, are the plot ters who bankrolled the killing still free, while Ray is penned...
Like Zero, If . . . has a loose patchwork of schoolboy fantasies for its plot. The film opens at the beginning of another term at an English boarding school. All is noise and confusion as the old boys greet each other and the new ones, called "scum," struggle to find their room assignments. Gradually, the focus narrows to a group of three upperclassmen (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) who are restless, cynical and chafing under the discipline of the house whips. They spend a lot of their time sneaking swigs of vodka and planning romantic acts of rebellion. After a particularly...
Five or six weeks ago, when Cooper began work on The Bonds of Interest, he wanted to try something similar. He took the play, and wrote a synopsis of the action--a plot and character outline, which he then presented the actors: no stage directions, no cues, no lines--just a glimpse of the plot, and the characters who are in it. From these bare guidelines, he hoped the whole production could grow...
...they are able to build up a high enough energy level to sustain the play (as they have in rehearsals early this week), they remain uncomfortably burdened with the play itself. Their onstage exuberance has at times been so great that it has totally swamped the action of the plot...
This prospect does not worry Cooper as much as it might some other directors. For one thing, as he admits, the plot of The Bonds of Interest could be swamped with little loss to anyone. (It is about two companions who arrive at a town. One assumes the role of a nobleman, the other his crafty servant, and so on.) For another, he is not terribly worried about putting on a technically polished production of the play. "After all," he explains, "we are a group of amateurs. There's something a little pretentious about our trying to present a very...