Word: stagey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight, even more exciting than the battle of the blades in All the Pretty Horses, fully realizes McCarthy's attachment to formal manly rituals. Aficionados of the bullring should appreciate the choreography of the action. Fans of bloodless sports may find the whole thing too stagey. Yet there is no denying the drama and inevitability of McCarthy's climactic mano a mano. What seems less fated is that white whale of an epilogue...
Many of these traits, of course, could be viewed as a direct result of the movie's origin as a stage play. But what works on stage doesn't always work on film, and Bent's stagey conventions make it drag along...
...tour: 30 or 40 Mormon teens sat on the floor of a second-story room and listened to a husky, white-haired elder narrate the tragedy of Smith's last hours. The elder, using a walking stick to imitate the rifles of the mob, enacted the death scene with stagey gusto, but when the bloody climax came--Smith's disastrous fall from the building--he grew somber. "I personally think that when Joseph fell out that window, the Savior was right there to catch him." There were tears in his eyes now and more tears on the cheeks...
...which the duke's toadies block Rigoletto's entrance to their lord's chambers, kicking the poor hunchback until his angry recriminations collapse into a pitiful plea for the return of his daughter. It's a moment that can move one to tears; yet here it looked so stagey that it failed to resonate...
...fare you'd want a V chip for. I mean, no one could object to blocking a five-year-old from watching Montel Williams, although I think that by the age of 12 a child should be able to appreciate the show for what it reveals about the stagey sanctimony of many public figures, and about the public's eagerness to be exploited for fame or fortune; these are valuable life lessons. The real problem with the V-chip system is that it won't protect kids or anyone else from TV's most pernicious messages, like the right cream...