Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole the novel seems diffused, in a way that earlier works, like Rabbit Redux, did not. In Redux, the complexity of the protagonist was enough to sustain the unity of a plot which occasionally rambled. Rabbit's speculations on love, sex, and politics were by themselves disjointed, but interesting nonetheless because he seemed someone worth knowing...
...week's end the junta was apparently in control of Bangkok, but it faces dangerous threats. Communist guerrillas are active in Thailand's northeastern provinces, and Radio Hanoi has denounced the coup as a plot between "American imperialists" and Thai "reactionaries." It was an ominous signal for a nation from which the remaining U.S. forces pulled out just last July, leaving the Thais to their own devices...
Graham Greene and John le Carre have brought off some of the best contemporary writing about politics and morality while telling their ruthlessly ingenious stories. In their work, though, themes rise naturally out of the plot. Not so in Marathon Man, where they are strictly excess baggage...
Stubborn persistence in trying to follow the film's plot may raise as many questions as it answers. The following, however, is clear: a sadistic old Nazi named Christian Szell (Olivier) is hiding out in luxury among the flora and fauna of Uruguay. Szell has kept snug on fees he collected from Jews in concentration camps. To help them escape the gas ovens, he first accepted gold-often fillings from teeth, which he obligingly pulled himself-then diamonds. The diamonds are stashed in a Manhattan safe-deposit box, watched over by Szell's brother, who, as the movie...
Although the film is certainly not tasteless, either in plot or in presentation, violence--and violence of a particularly bizarre and painful character--runs continually throughout Marathon Man. And if those in the audience are unprepared for, or less than anxious to partake in a two hour experience of this sort, the effect of the film will be unpleasant at best. With that warning, and noting that there are weapons of destruction employed in this film unlike any you have ever seen, know also that this screen version of the William Goldman novel is about as exciting and captivating...