Word: schoolbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rowlands] moves from spasms of manic nervousness to chastened, hurt-animal despair..." Kael's review reads, "Mabel returns, chastened, a fearful hurt-animal look on her face." This is a common enough phrase, were it not followed later in Stephen's review by the Jine, "Mabel waits for the schoolbus to return with her kids, pacing like an anxious speed freak..." Kael writes: "...a big beautiful blonde in tight, short chemises, she darts about like an anxious speed freak...
...WOMAN UNDER THE Influence is a kind of inverted Godfather II. Coppola's film is recognized as socially-relevant because it treats real, albeit distant, issues, while in Woman, the anxiety and boredom of housewifery is close to home but often surrealistically overstated. Mabel waits for the schoolbus to return with her kids, pacing like an anxious speed freak, demanding passersby to give her the time, and chasing after them when they try to ignore her. At a party she gives for her own children, she stampedes them into a performance of Swan Lake and supervises their deaths...
Ruby, bored with her husband and their lecherous, nosy neighbor, puts on a dress one evening and takes off in her schoolbus for a bit of fun. At the local nightclub she hears Earl Tibbits, a slick, cheap singer played with just the right sliminess by Danny Kosow. She waits around after the show and he takes her for a ride in his sports car. The next morning it's back to work for Ruby, but she meets Earl again the following night...
...into a stadium, and there publicly enacts the audience's fantasies by stomping of his wounded arm until he tells where he has hidden his victim. But a liberal district attorney and a smirking Berkeley professor turn the killer loose, and he strikes again. This time he hijacks a schoolbus and demands ransom and a jet to Rio for the return of the children. Although ordered not to interfere, Harry tracks the bus down, beats the killer into jelly, and then blows his head off with the .44 Magnum. In the final scene he rips off his badge and throws...