Word: stupids
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...structures they build. He shows us what those who accept such a society deserve: all the kisses that their self-justified, pretty little wives can give them, a plot of ground they can rest their tired hams on and raise the children that will be as undeniably stupid as themselves. And Peckinpah also shows what happens to those who sense that something is wrong, but can't yet formulate an alternative: they become like Ace and his son Junior...
...years "without knowing anything about art:" Yelena, his completely provocative and utterly directionless young wife: Sonya, his fresh, intelligent young daughter, stuck in the country for the rest of her days; Vanya himself, who could have been "a Dostoevsky or a Schopenhauer" if not for 25 years of "stupid, dirty provincial life;" and Dr. Astrov, who despite his intelligence and energy will sink--with the help of the vodka bottle--into Vanya's vulgarity and hopelessness after another 10 years...
...result of all this is diverting but far from consistent, even in its craziness. There are frequent longueur, and too many conversations about the meaning of revolution that are stupid even by Leone standards. Unfortunately, no one is likely to ever get as much fun out of his movies as Leone himself...
...kind of retroactive method, which ridiculously not merely regrets the trials and tribulations of fictional females, but attacks their authors and authoresses for marrying off so many of their women. In this way, the writers supposedly turn them--oh hackneyed phrase--into "objects", at the mercy of stupid and heartless males...
...became a model. Success, travel and money came almost instantaneously. Some nude pictures taken at that time found their way into Playboy only this year, much to her disgust. "The nudity was an act of personal vengeance against my very strict upbringing," she explains. "Today it seems stupid." And her other rumored acts of personal vengeance involving sex and drugs? "Past history," she says. "It's not interesting to talk about that, at least not for me. There are some things that are too personal to talk about in public...