Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good if indecisive fight, as do numerous other animals in a lavish variety of combats. Pythons grapple with a leopard, a water buffalo, a man. A crocodile fights a tiger, a binturong a lizard, a bear a hyena. A stampede of elephants helps out Devil Tiger's slim plot by trampling the leader of a safari. An amorous fellow, he has been gazing upon the pretty girl of the party, bathing naked. So numerous are the animals and so loud their snarls, grunts and roars that when the fearsome Devil Tiger finally appears his death seems a mild anticlimax...
...Failing to do this, they must block Mr. Roosevelt; and the present attack on him, for which the cancelling of the air-mail contracts has provided the excuse, is only one phase in the struggle. That this is a conscious attempt of the capitalist class to form a plot against Roosevelt I do not claim, for any such assertion would be ridiculous; but it does represent a more or less unconscious effort by them to unite against what they recognize as a common enemy...
...took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner enthusiasts grew up, to learn that the operas are not dull because they are long, that the Ring's complicated plot and hundred-odd motifs are well worth studying since they build up into such a colossal whole...
Director Eisenstein is, without doubt, one of the cleverest directors in the world today. He transposes landscape, faces, shadows, and even emotions to the screen without resorting to artificial lighting. His plot, however, is a thin one, and his nostalgic idealism may possibly bore one. He sketchily traces the life of a peon in the Diaz regime. The rich land owners are cruel, avaricious, and they love to assault innocent poor girls. The peon was miserable; therefore he revolted, and the Mexico of today arrived. Happiness, and an impeccable army, blooming youth, and more army. A glorious consummation...
...amount of good music and in the personality and general form of Miss Ginger Rogers. Such songs as "I Wants Meander with Miranda," "Good Morning Glory," and "Did You Ever See a Dram Walking" all currently popular, are to be found scattered through the course of the film. The plot, if the faint trend of connected story may be so designated, concerns a couple of song writers busting the Hollywood fences, aided and abetted by Ginger; it is novel enough, and the whole is entertaining...