Word: renderings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...starts thinking of cleanliness and manners, he evokes the civilizing process boys go through in adolescence as they discover girls. Mostly, though, the characters seem even simpler when played by actors than they did as cartoons. The costumes that help them resemble a candelabrum or a clock also render them slow and clunky. Maybe that is why, despite a barrage of whizbangery, the show is sluggish...
...show trial if ever there was one, and that is disturbing. I am not of the belief that the committee should demand that he proffer a catalogue of his future votes. The very suggestion that a would-be justice should gaze into his jurisprudential crystal ball and render all future verdicts is laughable. Still, the committee's critical orientation must not be abandoned, as I am afraid it will be in this case...
...Wave hero flawlessly by shattering the image of the typical leading man. One scene shows Belmondo's character, the fugitive Michel Poiccard, staring at a poster of Humphrey Bogart for minutes on end. But Poiccard's unglamorous criminal record's appetite for sex and apathy for everything else render him the opposite of the tough-but-noble Bogart-esque hero...
...Edzard, not content with physical accessibilit, seeks to render As You Like It more intell normally accessible too, by setting it in the modern day. Her contemporary analogy, while imaginatively filmed and well acted, does not fit Shakespeare's play--by using an analogy at all, no matter how apt, she mistakes the reason why Shakespeare doesn't normally attract mass audiences nowadays...
...severed by a passing train. In a climactic scene, one horrible man, a whip-mean, pockmarked little sheriff, literally eats another horrible man, the abusive husband, whom the ladies have barbecued and served up in their restaurant as an ingenious method of disposing of the corpse. Interesting fantasy: Render the heroic women crypto-sapphic, mutilate the men, or cook them, and reduce one to unwitting cannibal. Let the one good male in the bunch be a sort of big black watchdog, faithful and sexually neutered, probably the great grandson of Big Sam in Gone With the Wind. White women loved...