Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schramm's springboard triumph capped a career progression which saw him place eighth as a freshman, fifth as a sophomore, and second last season in this meet...
...real world. Invariably, as happened with Peter Weir's The Last Wave, the characters are sacrificed in order to explore the realm of the imagination. Yet however fascinating this theme might be to a director, it must be remembered that the "normal" characters in the film are the springboard into this mystical world. If such characters are one-dimensional, the audience is left with no horizon line against which to judge the increasingly strange happenings...