Word: plotted
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...before, got involved in a lawsuit with her brother Henri (Mathieu Amalric, star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the lead villain in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). She has effectively banished him from the family circle, which makes him the wild card - and plot fulcrum - when he turns up for the holidays...
...this family. It suffices that somehow all of its characters survive their forced intimacy intact, if not necessarily wiser for the experience. It seemed to me as I left the theater that A Christmas Tale was a little too jumpy for its own good, with too many characters and plot points hastily interwoven. But I've come to think that it is faithful to its essential purpose, which is to disprove the Tolstoyan dictum that unhappy families are each miserable in their own way. We do see something instructive about ourselves in this melodramatically grumbling group. We also appreciate anew...
...used sparingly. Monologues? Forget about it. Three people talking over each other at the same time? That’s more like it. “It’s interesting how fast-paced and dialogue-driven the story is. Instead of showing action through developing complex characters, the plot is primarily driven by what people say,” says Ryan P. Halprin ’12, who plays the role of quick-witted Herald Examiner reporter Hildy Johnson. But Coles’s main objective is to use this updated and more relatable version...
...that you’ll unleash a new wave of assassinations?SLL: The play makes you see these people as human. The audience will leave seeing a bit of humanity in them.RR: Do you have any advice for President-elect Barack Obama’s bodyguards so that the plot of assassinations ends here?SLL: I hope it does, or they’d have to rewrite the play. Avoid crazy people is a good start.RR: Have you avoided crazy actors?SLL: I wish. They’re crazy in a good way.RR: Who really shot JFK?SLL: I don?...
...hardly taboo-breaking, but the film has the secularist establishment, which sees itself as the guardian of Atatürk's legacy, up in arms. Critics have accused director Can Dundar, a popular and well-respected journalist, of lying, insulting Turkishness and even being part of an Islamist plot to weaken the staunchly secularist military...