Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't even satisfy those who are out for sexual thrills. There are scenes in this film--when a broken-down woman admits her sexual problems, first to Moore, and then to a bartender on the coast of Mexico--that are embarrassing. There are performances in this film--why did Julie Andrews cut her hair and leave Germany?--that are unspeakable. And there are parts of this film--critical explanations that might help you understand what's going on and why--that were left on the cutting room floor. Avoid...
Dionysus and the nerd wander off together, the latter eventually drawn into the plot as a sexual outlet for Granny (Bernadette Ward), who replaces Aristophanes' female chorus. He periodically peers out from atop the triangular point of the Acropolis, for no apparent reason...
...have sex with their husbands until the men make peace. In further protest, the women seize the Acropolis for the duration of the war. The original play is rude, even by modern standards, with men walking around with long phalluses and not-so-veiled references to sexual acts...
Estrada's attempts to update the political and sexual innuendos to the world of Harvard 1979 reek of hackneyed stereotype and cheap shots; while a few of the lines succeed (Man deprived of sex: "Do you know what four years can do to a person? Another man deprived of sex: "Yes, I was a Harvard man, too."), they more often fall flat (Kinesias...Senator Edward Kinesias!). Dionysus delivers many of these awkward lines, which are difficult to digest, but not nearly so difficult as the leering way that he recounts the tale of his "love" for Aryadne. Dionysus's role...
...Ruof) and Mastocles (Ray Bertolino), put some expression into their voices, but their parades around the stage seem foolish. Smith, as Kinesias, brings energy to his role, but too often he delivers his lines in singsong yells rather than with the distress of a man in dire need of sexual gratification...