Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flying came immediately to mind. After a little deliberation, though, it didn't sound that great. I wasn't enthusiastic about taking one of those commuter airlines that doesn't ask you to pay until you've left the ground. After the wheels are slowed, the stewardess comes by looking for your fare and for a little contribution to the Incompetent Pilots Relief Fund...
Unfortunately for Fritz, the age of network new sound People magazine has changed politics drastically. It is no longer a mere contest of organizational skill and horse-trading, but of marketing, and media manipulation as well...
...gray T shirts without numbers, just names stenciled on the back. There seem to be thousands of them. Clemente's shirt says BAMBI "because that's my nickname in Puerto Rico," he says, "and because I want to have my own name." Not intending that to sound harsh, he quickly goes on, "I think of my father all the time, both the player and the man. They say I was six and don't remember him as a player, but I do. I know he gave all he had, and just like him, I'm going...
Still, demographic accuracy remains a modest virtue in fiction. Giardina possesses greater gifts, notably in creating children who sound and act like children, and in compressing plot into homespun metaphor. Henna prepares a dinner of spaghetti topped with broccoli and garlic; the widow's son bursts out, "This is not what we eat." When Henna gazes at the woman he believes he loves, he thinks, "You are like an open book, always open to the wrong pages, revealing information no one is prepared for." Occasions like these easily give a glum and sometimes predictable story the air of authenticity...
...psychological extremes. Knowing that his audience was with him, he could take them to disturbing new places. Arguing that "it's only a movie," he could fulfill his ambition to create "pure cinema": the manipulation of universal emotions by camera placement, shot duration, the dramatic use of color, sound and editing. As two future film makers, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, wrote of the director in 1957, "In Hitchcock's work, form does not embellish content, it creates it." Hitchcock, less interested in universal theories than in the international box office, put his artistic aims more matter...