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...years later Claude Monet painted a similar scene. Manet chose to depict two pretty women sitting under a sunny sky with the station creating a bland industrial backdrop. Monet omitted the smiling women, painting only the dark, smoky blue train station; and the opening shot of Julia is a technicolor replica of his ominous image--an image that is repeated frequently throughout the film. Julia is the story of Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) and her childhood friend (Vanessa Redgrave) whom she christens "Julia," who together lost the insular beauty of their adolescence as the Third Reich came into power...
California was the media star of the '60s, and television was its agent. TV loved "the Coast." It was kinko-pop in Technicolor, with Carol Doda for dessert. Why trek to states out back when legions of braless grandmothers, hirsute cultists and banner-waving Chicanos could be filmed within an hour's commute of Los Angeles or San Francisco? Under the unblinking gaze of TV, California's every permutation assumed cosmic significance...
...bomb explodes in Israel, a wealthy Frenchman shoots out his brains in Paris, a priest gets shot in New Jersey. The only connection is blood: Sorcerer is less a movie than a bloodthirsty sadist's splicing of Technicolor newsreels. Even when the story--such as it is--gets going, the movie sidetracks for occasional carnage when it can't salvage enough from the plot itself. ("Maybe it's time," we imagine the director saying, "for a heavy cement pipe to crush a few native workers...
...activate this trite scenario becomes obvious at the climax, when the characters lapse into speech. If husband and wife had sung these commonplaces of insult and apology, it would have been laughable; their situation doesn't warrant the dignity of music. Even "Island Magic," the cheap illusions of a Technicolor movie, which Bernstein invokes to resolve the couple's muddle (it doesn't deserve to be called dramatic conflict) can't pull off the trick...
...books come to me in mind movies," she explains. "I see the action in Technicolor on a wide screen in my head, and I hear the characters speak every line of dialogue before I write it. All my heroes look like Clint Eastwood -I've had this absurd crush on him for years." Her heroines she imagines as Jacqueline Bisset or Olivia Newton-John. "I just write what comes to me. Sometimes I turn a passage in to Avon without rereading it. I'm just now learning to rewrite competently. But I could never do things to please...