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...cookbookers, of course, were all over the actors. "That's it! It must be a male camaraderie movie!" Male camaraderie was very big last summer, and suddenly Altman was playing the Newman-Redford. Woodward-Bernstein game. Depending on what: they thought of the picture, the critics had California Split down as a good army-buddies film, or a poor take-off on The Sting...
...first scenes are done in a saccharine style that only certain parts of Gatsby could equal (the scene where Redford and Farrow take nearly half a minute to run into each other's arms across a seemingly endless expanse of screen comes to mind). Locusts opens with Tod (William Atherton) driving Faye Greener (Karen Black) through the streets of Beverly Hills, past the well-cultivated lawns of auspicious mansions, as "Isn't it Romantic?" plays on the soundtrack...
...Locust has done, it might have been at least a decent, if not well-liked, movie, it closes in on all the wrong things, and gets at nothing that Fitzgerald did. Only one performance really works and that is Sam Waterston's sensitive and physically correct Nick. He, not Redford, is "better than the whole damn bunch of them...
...must not think of Waldo (Robert Redford) as merely a daredevil, idly tempting fate. Rather, he is a distillation of the romantic attitude common among the first generation of aviators. Their feeling was that the suddenly accessible sky offered not just a beauty and a freedom the earthbound could never know, but a purifying simplicity as well. In those early days, there were well known limits of performance against which one pressed, hoping through technique and aeronautical invention, to redefine them. There was also a direct correlation between talent and success (which could be defined simply as survival) that seemed...
...obviously paying tribute to a spirit of gallantry that he believes in and admires. Fortunately, he has communicated his earnestness to Writer Goldman, whose humor is tempered by uncharacteristic restraint, and to an excellent cast, among whom Bo Brundin as Kessler stands out. As for Redford, this is his best work since Downhill Racer. Appealingly awkward when trying to express his feeling for flying, he is in his most dashingly self-destructive mode when demonstrating the heights to which his passion drives him. All in all, The Great Waldo Pepper is popular entertainment of a very high order. ∙Richard...