Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good time--and so do we--and that, for him, seems to be exactly the point. The method makes this fairly clear: He has liberated himself from some of the most basic and demanding elements of film-making--story, dramatic rhythm, setting, scene structure--by co-opting the great plot of the Mary Shelley novel and faithfully copying the set design and scene sequence of the original film. He gives himself the freedom to make puns, play with sight gags, and concoct outrageously incongruent scenes--which is after all what he does best--without having to worry about the basics...
THERE IS NO coherent plot to Box Man, although there appears to be an extremely complicated code beneath its surface that, like DNA, offers endless possibilities and possible endlessness. The novel begins with several pages on how to construct and live in a box, and then shifts to the narrator, who is scribbling his story on the inside of his box. Because we are all locked in our own boxes, this annoyingly anonymous fellow asserts, we are left to our imaginations, and they become just as valuable as the so-called real world we see around us. They are perhaps...
...startlingly original comparison, but it was a break from the conventional approach to a musical, and Cabaret was an artistic as well as a commercial success--perhaps the last hit Prince will ever produce. He felt that he had compromised too much on Cabaret, imposing a plot on the original Christopher Isherwood stories, adding a subordinate story for the sake of love interest, toning down some of the biting satire. "My shows don't do as well now at the box office as Cabaret did because now I do them exactly as I want to do them," Prince writes...
...Orange, he's always managed to come up with pictures really worth confronting. His range is phenomenal: he gave us the mythical war room of the Pentagon in Strangelove, for instance, and he was the first to visualize it for us. Now we take it for granted that generals plot in blinking chambers like that, with a giant map of the world that's laid out like a game of Risk. And there was Paths of Glory and Spartacus--really an amazing bunch of movies, like them or not. Now he's apparently working in Ireland on a version...
...first thing you notice about Equus--sometime between the first garbled summary of its plot and the first couple of minutes of its spellbinding action--is how incredibly well Peter Shaffer has turned his dismal raw material (which he insists is a true story) into a play that works so well it hurts. A teenage boy is "possessed" by the spirit of Equus, the horse-god he creates, worships and fastens his sexual energies to. This possession is not altogether a bad thing; the boy is so absorbed in his world that he reaches a level of emotional intensity unavailable...