Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only compromises Chaplin was willing, at the time, to make with the new era of sound. Chaplin Revueincludes three fairly short films that predate Chaplin's first full-length comedies. A Dog's Life is the funniest, and most poignant; Shoulder Arms isn't very funny at all; The Preacher comes after so much continuous Chaplin that it's hard to judge. The three films are connected by some hokey talk about Hollywood, and all three have overdone orchestral scores written by Chaplin, instead of his original piano scores...
...houses: curious ornaments under their eaves, a kind of gingerbread or lathed dowel work created when the houses were built in the eighties or nineties by, we fantasized, a craftsman who while still a boy had come back from Lee's troops--Lee's Miserables, as one good Baptist preacher punned--or Johnson's, retreating north from Sherman. (Sherman's Memoirs, horribly written, in a thick green volume with the general's stars on the spine, talks about approaching Exeter...
Across the street in a house which was identical except for a large hole in the screen door lived a preacher man. He was only a lay preacher. He was short and tough, with a leathery tan from laying roofing in the sun all day and, on his little bones, big muscles filled out the sleeves of his t-shirt. His kids didn't go to public school because of the busing but in his yard was a large sky-blue bus he drove for Sunday School painted with "Have you read your Bible today?" and a big open Bible...
...Jesus, he said. (He could get away with that--the Council had said no talking about Jesus as the Lord but no one put any bans on the basketball coach-approach). Then Charlie told us about how he'd always wanted to be a preacher but realized that he wasn't eloquent enough. One day, he'd realized that he could play basketball, so he went into that instead. And he decided he'd just be Christ's missionary on the basketball court, showing people what Jesus could do for them if they'd only...
...Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a travelogue; a reggae singe on the up and up is bullied and beaten down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a sweet young thing, innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving as plain lechery. His ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders wearing shades and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the Western hero turned outcase...