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Rosen might have amended his statement to say that violence can be a corollary of gravity and seriousness only if there is a coherent narrative motive. Otherwise, the film drifts into the horror genre where violence is composed as spectacle for shock value. “Flags of Our Fathers,” the Clint Eastwood historical drama about Marines at Iwo Jima, is possibly the most graphic war movie since “Saving Private Ryan.” But since the gore in both films finds its source in a historical event, the viewer doesn?...
...responses from the audience. Performers Matthew K. Grzecki ’10, Tyler E. Spindel ’07, and Daniel Millstein, a freshman from Tufts, however, couldn’t quite get the show off the ground.Spindel is responsible for the above insight into big dicks, but his shock humor didn’t seem to appeal to everybody. THE TIPPING POINTIt was when Tufts senior Neil Padover took the stage that the show really picked up momentum.Padover’s smooth transitions and provocative material were reminiscent of Dane Cook, and everyone laughed when he explained...
Amanda suffers from acute culture shock before Graham (a smoldering and sensitive Jude Law) takes her frolicking in the English countryside. Iris does water aerobics with an old Hollywood screenwriter, Arthur Abbott (veteran actor Eli Wallach, “Mystic River”), whose creaky wisdom leads her to Miles (Jack Black, playing against type), a cultured score-composer who pens her a melody using “only the good notes...
...book is a surprisingly easy read—Bunuel’s writing style is very different from his far murkier cinematic directing. He still finds clever ways to incorporate into his prose dream images, symbols, and allegorical elements that are meant to shock, with surrealist intention. However, Bunuel the writer cannot as easily confuse the audience by abruptly cutting scenes...
...winner as Wisconsin’s Junior Miss 2004. FM: How do people at Harvard react when they find out that you have done pageants? AEB: I think people are really afraid of juxtaposing beauty and academic talent and intelligence, so I do think it’s a shock to some people. WGH: It’s like that whole thing that people think that you can’t be smart and beautiful at the same point. It’s kind of like cheerleader mentality, that people think cheerleaders can’t be smart...