Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while Schlesinger and Gilliatt puzzled over how to portray Bob and Daniel's affection. Rather than being recondite, they finally decided to film it as simply as possible. Just as two friends would shake hands upon meeting, so the two are shown greeting each other with a kiss. Gilliatt is aware of the aesthetic difficulty of filming sex. "Fucking is obviously what you feel not what you see, and nameless backs fucking and hands clenched when a person is coming" are techniques Gilliatt feels cheapen and confuse "a liberty the director has, which he might as well use properly...
...some extent, the new protectionism reflects the revival of isolationist sentiment; modern protectionists like to portray themselves as champions of a hard-nosed economic nationalism pitted against a fuzzy-minded one-worldism. More specifically, the falling profits and rising jobless rates of the 1970 recession fanned businessmen's and workers' fears of lower-wage foreign competition. There has also been a panicky loss of faith in the ability of American industry to compete in the world, a feeling supported by figures that show a drastic worsening of the American trade position...
...actors' problems are varied. Jack Gilpin, as the young writer Treplev, and Sarah Payne as Nina, the girl who leaves him for a more successful writer and a career on the stage, simply do not generate enough excitement as the principle characters. Some of the actors cannot convincingly portray characters who are supposed to be older than they are. Frank Leupold, as the old man, Sorin, exaggerates his senility too much to be effective. Scott Munerbrook, as the successful writer Trigorin, on the other hand, looks and acts too young for the part. There were, however, two fine performances...
Both Losing Battles and One Time. One Place portray the Depression from within, rather than from outside. "The Depression," she says in her introduction, "was not a noticeable phenomenon in the poorest state in the union." Whatever this may say about the perpetuity of depression conditions in rural Mississippi, it is more telling about how people under thirty-five felt about the thirties. There is in the eye of the photographer and in the faces and scenes she captures a desperate optimism and an unforgivable innocence. It seems that reality breaks Eudora Welty's heart, and that most...
TomCourtenay's Ivan is a large part of the problem. His face is too expressive and his presence too strong to portray a lisping, faceless prisoner. His third person narration throughout the film locates him as a sophisticated, detached observer who understands all his own pain. But this observation is completely incongruous with the ingenuous naiviete with which he asks a fellow prisoner "Where does the moon go each month if it doesn't break up into the stars...