Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Enemy followed suit with James Cagney as Tom Powers, a punk kid who becomes a tough-guy criminal. These movies were stories about gangsters' lives. They professed to deter crime by warning the public about violence in the streets, but managed instead to glamourize the gangster as a rebel hero. It was because of the brilliant acting of the likes of Robinson and Cagney, who gave their hoodlums dignity and poignance, that we believed in these gangsters as real people and inwardly wished them success...
Married. Ali MacGraw, 34, the willowy Wellesley graduate whose acting (Love Story) is still accidental; and The Getaway rebel Steve McQueen, 43; she for the third time, he for the second; in Cheyenne, Wyo. McQueen summoned a justice of the peace from a golf course to a city park to perform the ceremony, which was attended by McQueen's son and daughter and MacGraw's son by her second husband, Robert Evans, vice president in charge of production at Paramount Pictures...
Forced out of the preacher's household because of his romance with the churchman's ward, Ivan turns to running dope for a living. When he attempts to rebel against the strictures of the ganga trade--which lives under the protection of a corrupt government--the penalties grow heavy. Dope brings in high profits for certain middlemen; low wages are paid to the growers, and to the runners as well, who move the stuff between the countryside and the cities...
...Victorian respectability that buttressed a lifetime of security. Having been educated to believe that men were better, Nora is unconscious of her oppression. It is so built into her head that it takes her the whole movie to see it, much less to summon the guts to rebel against...
...audience who applauds the movie claps for a world which their own situation has rendered irrelevant. It is finally a highly conservative applause. For the message that romanticizes the female rebel, but balks before the women's rebellion, is anathema to any committed feminist. It feeds nothing but a counter-revolutionary fervor, one barren of relevance, one that lowers rather than raises consciousness...