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Ralph Rackstraw (Joel Derfner) is a lowly sailor who falls in love with his captain's daughter, Josephine (Sarah Cullins). At the same time, the lowly peddler-woman Butter-cup (Jill Wietzner) hankers for the captain (Aaron Caughey). Neither of these longings, however, can be properly realized if we are to honor Gilbert's satirized British class distinctions, and it is this sitcom-like conflict which drives the play. Ralph professes his love for Josephine; she rejects the suitor her father has chosen and tries to elope with Ralph; Ralph is punished. Then, like a lightning-bolt from the Gods...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players are masters at creating spectacle. Many of the show's scenes are buttressed with cleverly-orchestrated background action: A sailor has his telescope fixed on Buttercup's buxom figure as she enters; the ship's crew produces small pocket-combs in preparing to receive a ship full of women; one particularly unhygienic sailor, who is unable to find a dancing partner, dances with a fish in a bonnet. Director Elaina Vrattos has inserted some memorable moments into the play...
...system, alt.sex.masturbation, alt.sex.bondage and alt.sex.fetish.feet. On Internet Relay Chat, a global 24-hour-a-day message board, one can stumble upon imaginary orgies played out with one-line typed commands ("Now I'm taking off your shirt . . ."). In alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, a user can peek at snapshots that would make a sailor blush...
...essentially a tolerant, loving man, and it's the growth of his consciousness that provides the movie's connective tissue. At first acceptant of Sharon's news, he angers when he discovers who the father is. But when Sharon tries to provide a saving lie -- he was really a sailor off a Spanish ship -- it doesn't sit well with him. In the end, he knows he can live happily only with the truth. He buys a book about sex and pregnancy (from which he learns a few techniques himself), and when it's time to drive Sharon...
This is seriously rancid noir, with an archetypal plot: a loser on the run, hooking up with strangers who are very good at being bad. In Mexico, Alex (Kevin Anderson), a fugitive sailor, falls in with Missy (Rosanna Arquette) and Mills (John Lithgow), a married couple linked like felons on a chain gang. There is a slim mystery, with the federales in pursuit, but this is at heart a study of the cages three people have made of their lives. Mills says what they all feel: "I just can't get out of this goddam life...