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...speaks to the film’s overall lack of creativity. In addition to its triteness, “Mr. Magorium” sometimes overestimates the maturity level of its audience. Towards the end of the film, Hoffman gently explains the concept of death to Portman by discussing the stage directions at the close of “King Lear”: “There’s no fanfare, no metaphor...just ‘he dies’...And we are sad not because of those words, but because of the story that comes before those words...
...Currently treasurer of Currier’s House Committee (HoCo), she would give a greater proportion of UC funds to student groups and HoCos that stage more events, while those that offer less would see their funds...
...More alcohol makes anything possible!) 3. Each time the mystical Herr Drosselmeyer creeps you out. With all the close-ups of his face and his strangely possessive relationship with goddaughter Clara, there are many occasions for it. 4. Whenever special effects appear highly unlikely to be successfully executed on stage. (Note: In this production, people and props often appear, disappear, or drastically change in size right before your eyes!) 5. When the camera awkwardly zooms in on an unsuspecting partygoer, cutting off much of the action onstage. Two drinks if the person appears to have no idea...
...frequently conferring through a translator with Qasimov, the foremost singer of traditional Azerbaijani music and a recipient of the UNESCO Music Prize.Ideas ranged from reworking parts of the existing arrangement to entirely novel additions to the ancient work—one musician suggested collaborating with a director to introduce stage motions and acting to the role of the two soloists, for example.By the next rehearsal on Tuesday, products of the first day’s brainstorming session already started to be realized. A series of landscapes and Middle Eastern images were projected onto the back wall in coordination with...
...Petersen ’08 embarrassed us all with his speech, which pretended to speak on behalf of the student body, at Drew Faust’s installation—a barefaced attempt to deceive students with the tough-talking that his administration neglected to provide in the off-stage negotiations with University Hall. They uselessly watched as the College’s draconian crackdown on social life threatened student group leaders with punishments meted out at show trials held in secret by the infamous Ad Board...