Word: schmuck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast-paced film is about "just some poor schmuck walking down the street, reading his popular magazine when he gets struck by lightning and dies," the North House resident said. In the technically sophisticated film, the character tumbles into the afterlife, where he experiences both heaven and hell...
...catharsis. In witnessing the tragic fall of the protagonist, the audience can hope to achieve not only an understanding of the ephemeral nature of man's fortune, but also a sense of well-being based on the fact that, whatever their problems, they are not suffering like the poor schmuck on the screen...
...CENTER IS Gere's version of a schmuck making the transition to a mensch Unlike most of his previous performances, and especially his role in the laughable American Gigolo, Gere's Mayo has definition and direction. First, he seeks the pride the could never have achieved living above a cat house with his degenerate father. Second he learns about the price of integrity, avoiding false emotionalism in his early relationship with Paula. Third, he discovers that he can combine these with true friendship and generosity. In a subplot that could have become hokey, but somehow doesn't Mayo provides...
...ourselves, but Allen can point that out to us only by making us laugh at them. When Boris goes dancing down the road with Death to Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kieje in Love and Death we chuckle Kieje was a hero but Boris certainly isn't, he's just another schmuck out of his element, a schmuck who got screwed, and a schmuck who admits it. And we know that eventually we too are going to get screwed...
...Refusing to Pose with a Live Tiger: "No, the mayor is not a coward and the mayor is also not a schmuck...