Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself reborn, fathered by insight, nurtured by skill and imagination. Scott also offers something more. Always, just below the surface, there is an incessant drumbeat of anger. Says Jose Ferrer, who directed him in The Andersonville Trial on Broadway: "It's a concentrated fury, a sense of inner rage, a kind of controlled madness...
...personal life, Scott has often lost that control?with dramatic ferocity. When he is acting, he makes his rage work for him: it produces a consistent, overwhelming image of strength in all of the varied characters he so convincingly creates. And it is that projection of strength that makes so many of his parts almost tangible in a viewer's memory. Anyone who recalls one George C. Scott can easily see half a dozen: the unctuous gambler Bert Gordon in The Hustler; the slithering prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, squinting at witnesses through slit eyes like a starving mongoose...
Finally, his rage fastens on a myth, lately more in the public eye than most others since Oedipus-the myth of the vaginal orgasm. A complicated myth-Mailer admits to that right off-as difficult to prove as to explode, but one which is surely a match for all the writer's resources, imagination...
...influential reviews-came from Osborne-Porter's own delight in consciously attacking the symbols of decency and stability which had been lulling the progeny of the Welfare State into complacent acceptance and lethargy, where life was guaranteed, but spirit was not. In Osborne's play, Porter's rage had no outlet, and was turned inward upon himself and his personal world. Osborne's impact, however, was felt throughout the island, and influenced not only such dramatists as Arnold Wesker and John Arden but the Free Cinema movement as well; as Lindsay Anderson put it, all were determined to "raise...
...first act of Loot was extremely funny; the equally clever machinations in act two seemed pallid and a bit too taciturn by comparison. This can be attributed to the dulling of one's ability to be shocked, when the same sort of ludicrous out-rage is repeated again and again. Sex and religion, which rank after death as targets of Orton's jesting, also reach a point of diminishing returns after the first machine-gun fire of jokes. Lines such as "God is a gentleman. He prefers blonds," or Truscott's "I wasn't expecting pharaohs" to Hal's cowering...