Word: simpleton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Claudio's friend, offers the only consistently sympathetic character. Lucio is the literal devil's advocate, the very personification of human frailty. Derrah makes Lucio every bit as enjoyable as he should be, without sacrificing believability. Richard Spore also does an extremely fine job as an absolute caricature, the simpleton constable Elbow...
...Oval Office is being borne out by the President's vacuous statements, his staff's clumsy coverup of gaffes, and the increasing alarm of his Republican "allies." Previously hailed as the Great Communicator, exuding amicability, confidence, and resourceful leadership. Reagan has emerged as a narrow-minded simpleton, impervious to practicable political bargaining and constructive suggestions. And the press is now hammering that point home...
...saddle, his resolve and steadfast determination elicited praise and lent him an image as a commited and unwaivering leadership-s President who did what he laid. Now Reagan's initiatives appear carelessly and irresponsibly constructed. The dissension among his staff and Republican leaders now make Reagan seem a simpleton, typecast and mean-spirited. During Reagan's honey moon with both press and Congress he could afford rigid and dogmatic complacency. The press's belated but welcome scrutiny can only help make him reconsider-or stick to his guns and face political stalemate or disaster...
Nevertheless, Pythonic curveballs keep the movie accessible for adults. Sherwood Forest teems with spit, snot, and dismembered limbs. John Cleese is a lively, simpleton "Hood," distributing art treasures to the downtrodden. "Do you know the poor? I'm sure you'd like them!" he insists with comic-book eyebrows. Michael Palin and Shelley Duvall, in dual roles as lovers across two eras, provide additional satire on old movies, with a touch of the absurd: Palin, in desperate search for a cure to his vague sexual problem, blurts out, "I must have fruit!" This can mean anything; Python at its best...
...surface, and sometimes, mumbling, as if Cox knows there is something more to Wendla, but hasn't reached it yet. Similarly, Barry Mann never penetrates the depths that must be there if Moritz's suicide is to have any significance. Mostly, he plays Moritz as a sort of addled simpleton, a Peanuts character, where Wedekind's whole point seems to be that children are not Peanuts characters...