Word: realisms
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...Phryne and which for Aspasia. In due course, movies like Spartacus and The Ten Commandments would satisfy the need once felt for Bible scenes, Greek agoras and Roman battles. What was left to painting was the here and now, and that was where Impressionism, child of Courbet's realism, came into its glory...
...contours that make Henry such a complex hero. From the grime to the sublime, Shakepeare's tragedy, with Henry's conscience as the centerpiece, is translated into a visual maelstrom of patriotic noblemen, blood-curdling gore and ruthless bastards. It's foul, grim stuff with a strong dash of realism to make Shakespeare's play a passionate contemporary tale of shuddering wartime horrors and brutality, without sneaking in too many cliched lessons for us mere mortals...
...notion of ours as a generation with fewer opportunities for financial success than our parents is not entirely exaggerated. Their realism has become our own private neurosis. Don't say career, kids, say Weenie Barn. But The Twenty-Something American Dream contradicts the prevailing image of twenty-somethings as a generation of impoverished bohemians. Having heard "give me liberty or give me death" in many a fifth grade history class, some of us may have dreamed, however foolishly, of one day being the ones up against the wall when the revolution came...
...that were all ER had going for it, then Chicago Hope would be a big hit too. But ER is probably the most realistic doctor show TV has ever done. That realism goes beyond the graphic operating-room scenes and rapid-fire medical jargon ("O.K., we gotta go with it -- 5,000 units heparin, tPA 10 milligrams, push. Sixty over one hour. Let's get another EKG. Keep him on the monitor ..."). The show's hopped-up pace and jumbled texture -- stories start, stop and overlap seemingly at random -- set it apart from almost anything else on the air. "There...
...This is realism of a much different sort from today's "gritty" cop shows or socially conscious TV movies. The Mother deals with a social problem -- what is best for old people? -- yet it has no agenda, makes no statements, foments no outrage. There are no bad people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...