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...Antonioni is forced to cut quickly-Mark and Daria after fucking turned chalk-white like the desert away from his logical climactic image earth-to a more conventional wide-angle pull-back of dozens of lovers dotting the landscape. Antonioni cuts to three panoramic long shots of desert terrain. The third shows: Mark and Daria in the distance. Before MGM removed it from the prints, Mark said full-voiced on the soundtrack. "I always knew it would be like this." With the Open Theatre love scene directly before, the line was a howler. Antonioni claims it referred specifically...
...level deserts where temperatures rise to a scorching 134°F. in the shade. Its only inhabitants are fierce nomads, one of whose reputed customs is to carve parts from battle victims and bear them home as trophies for their women. Yet the most awesome aspect of this Dantean terrain is the inferno that may be hidden beneath it. After three recent expeditions to the Afar triangle, a Belgian volcanologist named Haroun Tazieff concludes that subterranean forces may slowly transform the area into a section of a large new ocean...
...professional life, Tennessee Williams has explored the terrain of failure. But it has been the noble failure of the human spirit. The real tragedy of the Last of the Mobile Hot-Shots is that its failure comes not from the text, flawed as it is, but from the ignoble adaptation...
...made Hamlet an agile activist who, as one critic put it, was "too busy" to kill the king. Richardson has concentrated on closeups of heads. The most concrete image in Hamlet is Yorick's skull, the symbol of mortality. The abstract image is the human brain. The existential terrain of Hamlet is the mind, vast as the earth and narrow as the tomb. By concentrating on men's faces and skulls, Richardson has located the essential geography of Hamlet far more relevantly than if he had built some grandiose castle of Elsinore...
That's it folks. The sixties have brought us here. There is no place to go anymore in America. The only terrain left to explore is that of our minds, and Mclfi's play ends with a white-suited man leading the mourners on a trip of the spirit- a trip through the Rockies and across the Mississippi, a trip back to nature, back through time to America that no longer exists and maybe never...