Word: schemers
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...Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays--Everett Ulysses McGill--should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "Based on The Odyssey by Homer...
...Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays - Everett Ulysses McGill - should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelog in verse but Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels...
...head string-puller you'd think he'd do viewers a favor and pick off charisma dead weights Susan, Sean and Kelly, in that order. We shall see. In the meantime, host Jeff Probst finally earns his journalistic stripes by asking Richard the big question: How does a schemer survive the final vote, in which the last seven kicked off choose between the final...
They say history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce. But sometimes it manages both the first time around. Brit Bob Hoskins is a surprisingly apt choice for the Panamanian kleptocrat, whom he plays as a cruel yet pathetic schemer--a lower-class striver who in another life might have become a crooked appliance salesman or sticky-fingered union boss. This playful film teases out the inherent absurdity in the dictator's fall (this was a man besieged by U.S. troops blaring bad pop music to drive him out of his Vatican-embassy refuge) without trivializing his predations...
...Like thick glaze on a cheap pot, ardent lips and an evil heart." "The thick glaze [of the pot] deceives the eyes," Kugel elegantly summarizes, "but underneath is crumbling clay." Similarly, "however much the lips of a flatterer or hypocrite may say pleasing things, underneath them is an evil schemer...