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Monsoon Wedding isn’t a subtle film. It is, instead, melodrama at its glorious and exuberant best: When the screen isn’t drenched with the torrential rain of monsoon season, it is saturated in a kaleidoscopic array of color. Characters are often familiar stock players of the wedding film genre and the film’s frenetic energy levels are maintained by a joyfully upbeat score that intrudes upon even the most intimate and contemplative of scenes...
...Jamie Hewlett sipped his beer nervously behind his banks of projectors ranged on a platform at the back of the room. Unlike the first couple of shows in Britain, everyone had a pretty good idea what we were going to get: animated performers and images, projected onto a translucent screen through which, if we were lucky, we might be granted a glimpse of the less two dimensional characters in the show...
Which brings us back to the oddity of the evening’s performance. How does a band connect with an audience with a screen in between them, and animated cartoons as their proxies? The answer seems to be, well, oddly. The audience’s enjoyment of the music was unmistakeable, particularly for the centrepiece “Clint Eastwood,” which Del graced with a different rap than the album version. Yet, despite Del’s exhortations, the audience didn’t exactly rock out, and was even a little hesitant to join...
...variety of ways. Oh, Thursday self, I knew it was a good thing to wait to write my conclusion until the 11th hour. The best ideas always come when you haven’t slept in ages and your eyes can no longer focus on the computer screen. I’m so excited, I wish you could tell me how it all turns...
Though he still had not located the missing plaques late yesterday afternoon, Jones did pinpoint when and where the awards had slipped off the radar screen. In his attempt to track down the missing plaques, he watched tapes from the hotel’s security cameras...