Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Meaning of Life, Cleese saidthere was no group concensus on the plot, withsome members wanting to make an anti-war film...
...obviously could have been a movie in which a lot of people stood around talking in tight spaces; in other words, a movie that refused to move. But screenwriters Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart do not overexplain (or underexplain) either its technology or the intricacies of its far-darting plot. We know all we need to know to keep our bearings and not a monosyllable more. And director John McTiernan does not fall too much in love with any scene, character or gadget. He has judged his material (and our attention spans) very well. His alternation of menace and human...
There are, after all, certain things we expect upon entering a theater: characters, setting, plot, movement of this plot from exposition to climax to denouement. We cling to our conventions, even if we do not mean to, even if we do not want to. Convention is almost all we ever see--are we to blame...
...show is two hours of image after image. It is certainly too long for the traditionalist, who will be frustrated by non sequitur scenes that are not held together by even a thread of continuity, much less the development of plot or characters...
February 10: My parents arrived in Cambridge with a team of deprogramming experts. They tried to convince me that TETRIS is a communist plot to despoil the minds of American youth. I responded that the Cold War is over, and showed them my new tatoo of Mikhail Gorbachev...