Word: subtext
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...comic subtext revolves around the servants in Olivia’s household. The lanky England plays Aguecheek, a bumbling knight who hopes to marry Olivia, with the perfect amount of goofiness and obliviousness. He’s complimented well by Sweeney as the libidinous Sir Toby who is constantly in trouble—yet always lovable—for his drunken ways...
Nevertheless, Oedipal conflict certainly plays a role in the subtext of the film. Hallam’s spooky taunting of his victims, hunters who search for deer with high powered scopes, applies as much to Friedkin’s directorial predecessors as to the trigger-happy “businessmen from Medford” who become Hallam’s first victims: “There’s no reverence in what...
Still, the very monomania of the Portuguese letter writer was intriguing. Why the fixation on the telephone? What was the subtext? To whom would someone pen such a peculiar letter? Or was “telephone” merely a code word? To whom had 501 Portuguese Verbs once belonged...
...representative said that the religious subtext to conflict in the Middle East has not been sufficiently understood and addressed...
...cultural component is a strong subtext to the language. We find that the excitement of language study is in the culture,” he says...