Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subtitle might be useful for The Odessa File, something like How I Stumbled on a Nazi Plot, Infiltrated a Secret Organization, Hunted Down a Mass Murderer, Saved Israel and Spared My Self-Respect...
Revenge of the Dragon marks Lee's last appearance as star-director-writer, but audiences hoot and holler: there is no sign of the grave respect customarily due a last work. The film follows much the same plot, includes most of the same scenes as any other Lee movie. His fans seem to accept it all as reassuring evidence that, as one ubiquitous T shirt proclaims, BRUCE LEE LIVES...
...first obvious twist to this simple plot came late Monday night, when the New American Movement called for a picket line to greet Colby the next evening. About 150 people braved a steady drizzle Tuesday outside the Faculty Club, while Colby was reportedly running into some hostile questioning inside. He did not, however, say much that was startling...
...earlier in the day, the plot had begun to thicken. Ellsberg--who joined the picket lines that night--had decided his talk to the Niemans was serving to "legitimize" Colby...
Because West is a romantic, everything works out cozily in the end. That is to say, the plot is tidied up, despite a few corpses lying about, and most of the good guys live wealthily ever after. The untidy questions about terror, commerce and diplomacy remain, and the disappointing feeling arises that the author was not really serious in bringing them up. Had his eye been bleaker, his novel would have been better...