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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, nothing of the sort has occurred. The Japanese have handled the prosecution in a careful way. Newspapers and T.V. have done their stuff as guardians of the national morality. The public opionion polls show that ordinary people support the governments' effort to get at the truth. There have even been moves toward writing a new campaign finance...
...that when the final gun sounded, it was hardly surprising that nearly everyone wandered out of the stadium with bags under their eyes. Sort of like when you leave certain lectures, if you know what I mean...
Kovic returns from Vietnam with still another sort of wound, equally paralyzing--a festering guilt. Vietnam was an expeditionary war, where the fighting was as confused as the moral issues. The enemy was not easily seen. Kovic carries the knowledge that he killed, although unintentionally, an American corporal and a group of Vietnamese villagers. His own body had been destroyed, and yet he had destroyed others...
...innocence of Kong, whether seen politically or sexually, that overcomes resistance to his fantastical presence and involves the viewer in his strangely touching fate. De Laurentiis is not the sort of man who spends much time with film journals or in critical exegeses of his projects. But from the start he has had an instinctive understanding of Kong's strength. When he is in full cry on this subject, one feels a bit like cheering him on, as one does when Kong takes off on his final tear. Dino is, after all, the representative of a misunderstood, often unloved...
Lange does a sort of muted Marilyn Monroe imitation in these scenes, but there is an underlying quickness and humor in her characterization. Considering that she played most of her big scenes with a thing, not an actor, and that sometimes she worked to no more than a mark on the wall where the ape would be in the finished picture, her accomplishment is considerable. "We've signed her for 700 years," says Paramount's Diller, exaggerating slightly. Lange, who for some time had led a wandering sort of existence as an art student, dancer and model...