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...eyes oozing crocodile tears. These keep the tone light for the most part—thank God for small mercies. But it is a testament to the egregious Eurocentrism of American film distribution that mediocre movies like Bon Voyage receive U.S. distribution with remarkable ease, while far superior international films often lack an American audience...
...stay, and rather than upset the balance, the goal of studios should be to enrich what’s already available. It’s plain wrong to claim that blockbusters need to exist as brainless, heartless machines in order to succeed. There have been a number of superior action movies offered in recent years, with equal shares of proficient filmmaking and mass appeal. Dirty Pretty Things, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, City of God and Kill Bill: Volume One all have the key ingredients of a successful summer blockbuster, but all were judged too intelligent...
...would certainly be possible—if outrageously self-serving—to dispute Brooks’ claim. (“After all, so what if he can’t tell that we’re superior to Penn State students, he’s probably just not very perceptive.”) A more worthwhile exercise, though, is to think of how Harvard students should want to distinguish themselves from their peers at other colleges. After all, stereotypical as it sounds, most Harvard students really are not satisfied with second best…or first equal. The challenge...
Walid looks for new recruits by talking to "people at the mosque about the current situation," in other words, by preaching the Hamas message. When Walid spots an impressive candidate, he reports the person's name and qualifications to a superior, who makes the actual approach. The division of labor ensures that if Walid were to be captured by the Israelis, he wouldn't be able to identify those selected for militant operations...
...strum a guitar. When he died, Johnson was 27 and had only 29 songs to his name. Clapton says those recordings (which are just Johnson and his Gibson L-1, no accompaniment) are the finest music ever made, which leads to a conceptual dilemma: if Clapton mimics Johnson's superior minimalism, he has added nothing; if he tinkers, he risks ruining perfection. He's damned both ways...