Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the somewhat predictable plot, Affleck and Bullock make a cute, if not slightly mismatched, couple. Their natural chemistry may even leave some wishing for a few more catastrophes. However, while watching Forces of Nature, one has to question the odds of a plane crash, hailstorm, fire and hurricane all happening to two people within the span of 48 hours. Not to mention being wrongfully picked up by the police as accessories to the burglary of a car and for possession of narcotics...
...Sleep With Girls?" and "Which One of You Is the Man?" The narrator's complex and playfully oblique answers assert the legitimacy of her love though they never really tell us a story--veering instead towards commentary and description. I see the lack of substantial plot in Winterson's writing less as a flaw in her abilities as raconteur and more as her attempt to defy the genre of short fiction. She challenges our notions of love and storytelling simultaneously...
...Norman and Stoppard yearned to make a movie about homosexuality, here would have been an opportunity to show that the man capable of creating the "greatest love story of all time" would have pursued not Juliet, but fair Romeo. But this plot would not have rewarded the screenwriters with adoring audiences, and certainly not with 13 Oscar nominations...
...Norman and Stoppard wrote the movie with the intention that audience members would either trudge out of the theater longing for some Romeo to climb through their bedroom window at night, or with patrons holding on a bit tighter to the Romeo they had already won over. Had the plot focused on a homosexual relationship, the audience would not have felt the same emotional identification with the lovers split asunder...
...shied away from displays of passion between his lovers on stage, for all of the lewdness of "I Get No Kick from Campaign," there is not one kiss between any one of the musical's couples. Audiences at The Rose anticipated these displays of compassion to solidify the storys plot--in Elizabethan England, that the kiss was between two men, with one dressed as a woman, was inconsequential...