Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although lesbianism itself fails to spark the emotional horror of the late '30s, Hellman's theme of irresponsible malice and perverted righteousness still rings true, even if the power of her tale is marred by several melodramatic scenes, slightly overdrawn characterizations, and an appalling denouement...
...with philosophy. It reads like a dreamy monologue, as if the reader and Miss Seldes went home together after her evening performance, and she began to describe her career. The soliloquy soon disregards the rules of sequential narration, as if the speaker began to interrupt herself, linking events by theme rather than by time, injecting the insights of the present into the past...
...play cannot live, Seldes says, if the actor fails to feel for it with "a caring" that embraces the whole meatrical enterprise. Her theme emerges clearly: "To act without love is cruel...
...camera - visually. For Violette, you know, the ending is open; there are chances for her. For Beatrice in The Lacemaker, it is closed, without the possibility of hope." In a way, she goes on, the two films are about young women and authority, one struggling, one submitting. The theme is important to her, and she sees the two differing stories as part of her own artistic development...
...MASTERSON! --Theme song from the Bat Masterson Show...