Word: tristan
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...sensibly left him named their firstborn Alfred and their last born Samuel, and both are pretty normal, boring American boys -- the former (Aidan Quinn) perhaps a little too priggish and self-serving, the latter (Henry Thomas) perhaps a little too simpy and idealistic. But in the middle there's Tristan (Brad Pitt, with a long, irritating mane of hair, doing his James Dean imitation...
...young man growing up on a vast Montana ranch early in this century, Tristan is unduly influenced by One Stab (Gordon Tootoosis), the Native American who narrates the tale in movie Indianspeak -- stilted language with ( many references to nature ("It was in the moon of the red grass," he says solemnly when he wants to date something). Tristan takes to cutting out the hearts of fallen prey to free their spirit and develops a lifelong, mutually unhealthy relationship with a grizzly bear. He never fully escapes the call of the primitive, but at a certain point he does begin carrying...
Books: John Updike imagines the Tristan myth in Brazil...
Like a Shriner with a water pistol? Something like that. Even writers have to get out of the house once in a while. The last time Updike cut loose abroad was about 15 years ago, when he used an African setting for The Coup. Now he retells the Tristan and Isolde legend as a love story about a black teenage mugger from the hillside slums of Rio and an upper-class white girl with a hunger for forbidden experience...
...Sanskrit title derives from two words: turanga, meaning flowing time, movement or rhythm; and lila, or love, sport, the play of the gods. The symphony's 10 movements, which last well over an hour, are rife with programmatic references to the ancient Celtic love story of Tristan and Iseult, to the myths of ancient India, even to the spooky stories of Edgar Allan...