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...jolt of literary blasphemy, like hearing a Tupac Shakur lyric sung in Westminster Abbey. Melodrama in Shakespeare? How awful, how scabrous, how very...appropriate, since Will was a man of the theater who gloried in the trappings of stage sensation. And because Richard III and Iago are the two scurviest, most seductive villains in the canon, it is right for directors to find a movie equivalent, in images and action, for Shakespeare's pulsing poetry and Elizabethan bloodlust...
...close attention to such handicaps and correctives as (to quote from the index): "Bulging eyes, changing appearance of," "Slanting boards, relaxing on," "Forearms, hair on," "Widow, making friends and having fun" and "Scurvy, disease of sailors." The point of going to so much trouble is also, as even the scurviest sailor will suspect, to be found in the index, under the heading: "Husband: see also...
...Passenger to Bali (by Ellis St. Joseph) is a symbolical melodrama. It concerns a scoundrelly demagogue, "a dictator in search of a country" (Walter Huston), who gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...
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