Word: tell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detailing the professional wrestling exploits of the wrestler known as Mankind, and The New, New Thing, the story of technology/computer pioneer Jim Clark, both represent a move away from the typical biography in which the life of a single person is the subject of the book. Instead, these biographies tell readers about a larger phenomenon through a smaller lens, funneling the world of professional wrestling and technology into personal stories that readers can relate to and understand. Given that biography is used here as an enticement into an otherwise dry text, it seems that ever-problematic truth might...
...literal approach here, employing the most drab, extensive set of voiceovers since the awful pre-director's cut version of Blade Runner. (Haven't seen it? Don't.) Fiennes, a subtle actor, is forced to explicitly identify every emotional state his character enters. Does Bendrix really need to tell us how "tortured" he feels when we can see for ourselves a miserable Fiennes gulping whiskey and slamming his fist onto a table with rage...
...dues." The blues have to be told to someone. There have to be people to address. It's a music of anti-introspection, a way of confessing and purging your troubles. It's an answer to loneliness, and it's thesis is that so long as you can tell your problems to someone, they're no longer your problems. And, conversely, so long as you can listen to someone's confession, your own troubles are no longer unspoken...
Sure, I could know the history of the blues. I could tell you that it grew out of sharecroppers' songs in the Mississippi Delta, and that the patron saint of those gritty Delta blues is guitar virtuoso John Lee Hooker. I could tell you how the blues followed the sharecroppers as they looked for jobs up North, first in Memphis, where the blues would fuse with country music to create rock and roll, and then up to Chicago, where it would settle into a pulsing rhythm and produce the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf...
...seems that every studio's major Oscar contender runs at 160 minutes. Two hours and 40 minutes to tell a story? I have no doubt that Toy Story 2 tells a bigger, faster, cooler...