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...want to see what the hype is all about,” Nancy A. Chow ’08 said before the film. “I’ve never seen any of the Star Wars movies and I don’t even know what the plot...
...want more, a second tour goes out to the "edge of the Kalahari" where some of Ramotswe's most intrepid investigations have unfolded. Later, on a visit to the Mokolodi Nature Reserve, tour operator Tim Race, an old family friend of McCall Smith, offers a preview of future plot twists. "Anyone who has read about a place gets a lot more out of seeing it," says Race. "People always say, 'Oh, now I'm going to have to reread that part.'" Tour One costs $75 (plus tax); Tour Two $125 (plus...
...hallmark of any commercial film is that it resolves the plot. More and more, as this year's Cannes selections demonstrate, art films shrink from happy endings; sad ones, endings of any certainty. Michael Haneke's Hidden, the critics' current favorite to win the Palme d'Or, refused to unravel its central enigma. So does Broken Flowers, though Don need only ask a question or two of a few people he meets to find what he was ostensibly searching for. The mystery and the answer, Jarmusch says, is in Murray's face, whose contours and conundrums are always worth studying...
...Cannes, always a politically charged arena, the critics naturally read metaphors into the plot, especially the part involving the rise of Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) to ultimate power. A candidate thrust into the top seat after a military attack? Sounds like Spain after the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2003. A politician who is "scarred and disfigured" by his political enemies, yet survives to win the acclaim of his people? That's spookily like the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, now President of Ukraine (although the West sees him as a good guy). A leader who cements his command...
...animal. The first few minutes had no action at all, just dialogue and scene setting, building suspense and establishing a world. That was a radical idea for a video game, but what followed was even more radical: Half-Life had actual characters whom you cared about and a plot with genuine dramatic tension. When it was released in 1998, Half-Life shocked the industry, sold 8 million copies and won 50 "game of the year" awards. Half-Life 2, released last fall, has already sold millions of copies...