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...fellow gladiator (played by Amistad's Djimon Hounsou) has no emotional resonance, nor does his bland romance (if you want to call it that) with the emperor's sister (Connie Nielsen). And as wonderful as Crowe is, the detached nature of his character (mostly the fault of the script) hinders his ability to turn Maximus into a truly mythic hero. The great Hollywood epics all had a sense of sweeping emotional grandeur (when the rebels all yell "Spartacus!" it's a cheesy yet uplifting scene) which is noticeably absent from Scott's film, which is more of a relentless, almost...
...trying to segue-I started by sitting down to write my script, the one that I've been threatening to do for God knows how long. But then when Richard Curtis came in and did a fabulous rewrite on Bridget Jones, then I said I would love to do that...
...that script you're working on will be completely produced by your own production company...
Though the script is not terribly interesting in and of itself, both performers and designers execute their tasks as well as could be asked for. A delightful surprise for a show that, at first, seemed so wrong for the Ex (i.e., so non-experimental), this production is as good as Brighton Beach is likely...
...conceived improv sketch, does have it high points. Likewise, the cast bravely struggles against the banality of their lines, occasionally achieving something not totally unlike entertainment. Jared Greene '03 was delightfully serious as the misguided mystic, John, and James Crawford '03 nearly succeeded in ripping a character from the script's lifeless caricature, David. While they managed to salvage a performance from their script, others were simply overwhelmed. Caitlin Butler '03 (Tess) and Mia Lozada '03 (Malvolia) saw their talents go to waste, trapped within the confines of one-joke roles. Butler had to contend with well over half...