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Though "Man of la Mancha" might be light, it's hardly simple. One can almost watch the script wander off in pursuit of deep philosophical riddles like "who was really the fool, Don Quixote, or the people that had no illusions?" or "which is really real? Wasserman's imagined Cervantes? Cervantes' imagined Quijano? Quijono's imagined Quixote? The play we are seeing, or the world outside...
...bother carping about script lapses involving the crew (or an even sillier subplot of an upper-class twit on a yacht)? Humans are irrelevant to an effects extravaganza. The money shots come out of a computer or a studio tank. And though a storm is not a shark, the technical artistry plugs into a viewer's neurons to create a churning queasiness. You won't be moved. You will...
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, 1966 Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain starred in a musical based on the hit film. Playwright Edward Albee rewrote the script to no avail. Producer David Merrick closed it in previews, but joked, "Cartier's wanted me to keep it open to damage Tiffany...
...will have to be fought. Fought seriously. Fought painfully. And it is here that The Patriot often transcends the cliches of the epic form, not to mention director Emmerich's previous work (the mysteriously successful Independence Day and the seriously miscalculated Godzilla). This is possibly because the script is by Robert Rodat, who wrote the unblinking Saving Private Ryan. He and Emmerich stress two things. The first is the brutal reprisals the British take against the families of the men fighting with Martin. You cannot help comparing what happens in this movie with what we have been horrified...
LIFE IMITATES ART Have mobsters been watching too much TV? With the arrest of several gangsters for allegedly running a stock scam, the script seemed right out of HBO's hit series The Sopranos. In fact...