Word: transcended
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Soderbergh wryly acknowledges the film’s origins and then manages, as he so frequently does, to transcend its limitations. While prepping his team for the heist, Danny explains precisely why he would attempt such an impossible mission. His reasons are succinct, his delivery is deadpan and his air is undeniably macho. Pitt bursts the bubble when he asks, “You’ve been rehearsing that, haven’t you?” Clooney responds: “A little, did I rush? I felt like I rushed.” With any other director...
...Landau). Here he joins the task of revamping an old movie theatre, The Majestic, along with rediscovering himself, finding true love and other such escapades, such as evading the Communist hunters who eventually track him down. Darabont is the classic Hollywood emotional manipulator, and usually he is able to transcend convention in his films just enough to forgive their cheesiness. However, though he has the always-lovable Jim Carrey at his disposal, he doesn’t have a clever, magical Stephen King story to float the film. The Majestic may not be the season’s most exciting...
Most of the principals fare better than the physical production. However, though they are generally adequate, few transcend the limiting material. Brian Noonan’s Chris, the American soldier, seems lost on stage most of the time. And while the character is weak (apart from being weakly sketched), there needs to be enough substance to him that two strong women would fall so deeply in love with him. Noonan’s performance is also hampered by the fact that his voice, while a powerful instrument, appears largely untrained. His forced vibrato and difficulty with held notes detract from...
...partner, his teen lover, his hotshot lawyer. By the movie's end, he is facing his final comeuppance, deadpan sangfroid still miraculously intact. The ever astonishing Coen brothers say their film was inspired by the spirit of James M. Cain's novels about ill-fated dopes. But the Coens transcend Cain. If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking--hilarious yet hypnotic--one would be tempted to see something Greek in the tragedy that Ed never comprehends...
...period. Collins concluded that it's not necessarily celebrity leaders, rich executive pay, pricey technology or splashy mergers that lead to greatness. Rather, it's "Level 5 leadership." Such leaders often are "self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy." They put people in the right roles, confront unpleasant facts and transcend mere competence. "I like to think of our work as a search for timeless principles," writes Collins. --By Andrea Sachs...