Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Futz loves his pig. That isn't graffiti; it's a plot. Futz is an Appalachian farmer whose great pleasure in life is making love to a porker named Amanda. Naturally, his narrow-minded neighbors are upset. The village slut plots revenge on Farmer Futz after he invites Amanda along on a tryst. She persuades a local homicidal maniac to claim that he killed a village girl only after seeing Futz and Amanda in the throes of passion. That's grounds right there for the sheriff to grab Futz and toss him into jail, where the indignant...
Unlike the characters, the audience is let in on the mistaken identity aspects of the plot from the beginning-and that's the point. Wilder wants us to share with him his contemptuous laughter for all affairs human...
...plot development is different this year, but the ending may not be so surprising. Brown, 7-2-2 overall and 3-1-1 in the Ivy, is second in the League and within striking distance of the lead...
...hardly so dark. In large part it simply invites its audience to watch a divertissement. But Anton Walbrook's introduction mentions our "curiosity...people want to see all sides of life." This "curiosity" makes us follow the affairs of Ophuls' characters and sets up the final reversal when the plot comes full circle. Emotions that began the film trivial and simple, and became deeper and more important to the characters, are lost in the proliferation of incidents and characters. Our detachment imperceptibly increases as his characters grow older and more sophisticated, as their relations become games between people who know...
Marlowe still packs a heater in a shoulder holster, and still operates out of an office that could qualify for urban renewal. But for this film, Director Paul Bogart (no kin) is just keeping down appearances. Whenever the plot calls for straight shooting, he is as crooked as a cop on the take, using sleazy trick photography and mannered techniques. In a scene of two people in a large living room, for example, Bogart can be counted on to plant the viewer in the fireplace, behind the flames...