Word: trite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shadows. Actor-Turned-Director John Cassavetes' crude, sometimes trite, but powerful improvisation of interracial love among Manhattan's young havenots...
...showed just how bad the results of such adaptations can be. This, a Toccata, was written by Frescobaldi, but you wouldn't know it from the transcription. Like Stokowski's orchestral renditions of Bach organ music, the adaptation turned the freshness and grace of the 17th century toccata into trite 20th century melodrama. Walker added to the distortion by twisting the evenness of the melodic lines with Romantic nuances...
...Puss 'n Boots cat food shows a little man eating a can of Puss 'n Boots. A voice asks why he, a man, is doing this. Instead of replying that the cat food is so good that he prefers it to filet mignon, or something equally trite, the little man peels off his face. "I'm not a man," he says. "I'm a cat dressed up for a masquerade ball." The viewer is left to brood that although this tiny bit of cartooned lonesco may not be the funniest thing ever written, it is, pound...
With $40,000 plus Cassavetes' sensitive and indirect direction, the actors improvised a sincere, original, powerful film. Always crude, often trite, sometimes even phony, this rackety little race opera is nevertheless loaded, like a truck full of oxygen cylinders, with huge, impounded energies...
...doll play, telling of a blind man and his wife who commit suicide, and of a goddess who restores them to life, scores chiefly through details and through Utaemon VI's acting as the woman. To a Westerner, the snail-paced story seems more often theatrically trite than poetically touching. On the other hand, the final play-telling of a rich provincial who falls in love with a courtesan and tries, with tragic consequences, to buy her out of her brothel-has not only pictorial charm but genuine story and character interest. Here Grand Kabuki conveys very well...