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...Bertolucci uses the lives of two friends born on the same day in 1900 to trace the major social and political upheavals of 50 years of Italian life (a better English rendering of the title, Novecento, might be Twentieth Century). Bertolucci's bias is frankly Marxist. His scenario, set in the rural Po valley, celebrates the rise of the Communist movement among the peasants and its ordeal under decadent landowners and brutal Fascists. Is this waving of the Red flag the real reason for the movie's rejection? Nobody will say so outright, but it is no secret...
...trappings of his Oedipal complex. He played his parental role to the hilt, demanding reverence and respect, and finished by lamenting the Oedipal pattern of his 'son's' jealousy and betrayal when one after another his heirs began to leave the fold. In the past 15 years a similar scenario has been played out in the "psycho-historical" movement that has grown up around Erik Erikson and his work. Yet in Erikson's case the parenthood was unplanned...
...congressman and the priest are cut from the same cloth, a take-off on Watergate that uses a religious framework should have great potential. But Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film Nasty Habits relies too much on an ornamental frame--the format of transplanting the Watergate scenario to a Philadelphia convent--and leaves only a blank canvas for content...
Perhaps some of you will understand Buckminster Fuller's lead article, "Mistake Mystique," but it mystified me. Phrases like "omni-accommodative generalized principles" or "the progressive complex of cosmic episodes of scenario universe" throw me into the same haze as pretentious science-fiction. When, after the geodesic rhetoric, we're told of synergetics and the positive value of mistakes, you may feel like adding the Robert Louis Stevenson-ism: "the world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we all should be as happy as kings...
...scenario could be repeated endlessly: elk hunting in Montana, oil prospecting in Alaska, a quail shoot in Mexico, a social-cum-business bash in the Mojave Desert, a sales spiel atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The H-H passenger rides high above smog and speed limits, encounters no parking problems, and gets farther from the madding crowd than a hyperthyroid hermit with climbing irons...