Word: soliloquy
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...screenplay he hopes will be the vehicle for his directorial debut. So he has journeyed to a modest office in an apartment block in Beijing to seek advice from the master, Zhang Yimou. He's come to the right place. The celebrated director favors Hou with an impassioned soliloquy on his interpretation of the script: why Hou should use narrative repetition to create pathos, why the antique wardrobe stays in the same place for three decades, why the mother and the daughter never speak to each other at dinner. At the end of a breathless three hours, he sounds...
...Nightmare, George Spelvin, played by Matthew J. Weinstock ’05, the semi-amnesiac lead actor thrown into plays ranging from Hamlet to Happy Days, gropes for lines and the zipper of his costar’s dress only to deliver perhaps the most painful soliloquy in stage history. The hilariously over-acted Horatio of Christian E. Lerch, and the dead-on deadpan delivery of Winnie by Jessica M. Gordon ’02-’03, highlighted the play’s comic effect...
Notice, on top of all those I's, all those my's. There were indeed times in Torricelli's farewell soliloquy when the entire world seemed merely an extension of his own benevolence: "Somewhere today in one of several hospitals in New Jersey, some woman's life is going to be changed because of the mammography centers I've created for thousands of women," Torricelli croaked. "Somewhere all over New Jersey some senior citizen who doesn't even know my name lives in a senior center that I helped build ... That's my life. Don't feel badly...
...Frankie's film singing. It is no small accomplishment that its producers persuaded the movie studios who hold the rights to this material to allow a raid on their vaults. Some of what the producers found--a few songs from an abortive cartoon version of Finian's Rainbow, Soliloquy from Carousel, a film Sinatra walked out on--is interesting, if not top-notch, Frank. But as there have already been enough Sinatra collections to make you want to listen to Ricky Nelson, what's left is mostly the great man's pocket lint...
There's a scene in Crush where she sits at the organ with Jed as he demonstrates how, with a simple change of key, he "can make anyone cry." It's Doughty's soliloquy, but as he plays, MacDowell simultaneously shrivels and blooms: Kate realizes that this kid means more to her than a quick roll in the churchyard--he is the ardent love she had not known she was missing. The happiness and pain send a tear down her cheek...