Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lemonade to a girl who insists that it be made from real lemons, they ask if her Girl Scout cookies are made from real Girl Scouts. Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) may have spent too many years in the Bermuda Triangle -- could be he's not really Uncle Fester -- but plot twists need not concern us. It's the filigree work that's worth watching...
...which proceeds from the first: "Why are they so scared?" On the one hand they dismiss the notion of the gay 10 percent as a Kinseyan fantasy, and place the gay population at 1 or 2 percent. And yet on the other hand, they see an organized and successful plot to destroy the family, the Church and the population. There is much less of Paul Revere and a lot more of Chicken Little...
...underscore the bare ugly truths of the Tyrone family, not only does Gammons rearrange the plot, but he also excises the text. This powerful interpretation brings home the way that each member of this family has acted and been acted upon to create a collectively tragic fate. Hardcore cynicism and hopelessness gain prominence through Gammons's textual revisions. He deletes lines like "all I care about is to see you get well" and "she loves you as dearly as ever mother loved a son." Characters are tightened up rarely silly or mushy...
...text in two ways. By refusing to let the truths develop out of illusions, Gammons sacrifices O'Neil's "happy family" setup of the first act that universalizes the Tyrones and invites the audience to identify with them. Because no process of gradual realization remains to develop the plot sequence, Gammons's versions seems like a series of incidents strung together but not causally related--gone is the sense of crescendo in the final...
...this remake of the 1962 sicko classic based on John D. MacDonald's novel The Executioners, the plot contours are the same: a sleazy ex-con, Max Cady, comes to a small Southern town to take his slow revenge on a lawyer who sent him to jail, and on the lawyer's vulnerable family. The basic ethical tangle remains as well: How can a good liberal fight a bad man who at first may do nothing but lurk? But now everything else is more intense, more complex. From the film's first images -- weird creatures shimmering just below sea level...