Word: plot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEDIUM COOL. Writer-Director Haskell Wexler takes a fictitious plot, places it against an authentic backdrop (the Chicago convention), and explodes a film that is both social and cinematic dynamite...
...first, the fact content is reduced, partly because of the porosity of human memory, partly because of man's inclination to simplify. The Great Blackout of 1965 was a cause of countless rumors; some people immediately assumed that it was the result of a Communist sabotage plot; others believed that it was an unannounced air-raid test by the U.S. Government. In the next stage, the rumormonger accents certain parts of the story that appeal to him. Last year in Washington, D.C., a rumor swept the black ghetto that Soul Singer James Brown had been killed shortly after finishing...
...character, are sacrificed to the single aim of scaring the collective pants off his audience. Suspense is an essential element in Clouzot as well, but the three-dimensionality of his characters, and the constantly changing impressions one has of them, bolster the credibility and the validity of the plot...
...Meyer's genius is that he doesn't let any-complicating factors-like "redeeming social value" or "plot line"-get in his way as he steams toward his goal of producing a sexy movie. A brief outline of Vixen's action is an instructive example...
BANEFUL SORCERIES by Joan Sanders. 352 pages. Houghton Mifrlin. $6.95. The mock memoir of a French girl whose marriage to a decadent nobleman is complicated by black Masses and poisonings -some of which actually scandalized the court of Louis XIV. The author succeeds elegantly with baroque setting and sinister plot...