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Hirsch believes the ingredients of these twentieth century pleasures are much more difficult to figure out and analyze. Today' incentives and motivations are more complex than a caveperson acting simply to quell hunger. Hence, he predicts, economists will become less proficient social phenomena and individual actions...
...self-pitying, Daniel is nonetheless self-regarding to a pathological degree. He looks at himself and his contemporaries and sees failure. "We had all our values wrong," he tells his current actress girl friend. "We expected too much. Trusted too much. There's a great chasm in twentieth-century history. A frontier. Whether you were born before nineteen thirty-nine or not. The world, time...it slipped. Jumped forward three decades in one. We antediluvians have been left permanently out of gear...
...publicity mill of Twentieth-Century Fox makes abundantly clear--in the course of leafing through some 39 handouts--that Lucas has maintained an ongoing infatuation for many years with the sci-fi heroes who thrilled a generation, and then some, of American youths from the 1930s onwards. Lucas worked hard on Star Wars; his first film since the 1973 hit American Graffiti, the 33-year-old director spent the better part of three years writing the script (during which time he drew up four different versions) before he commenced shooting in March 1976. A lot of care and effort went...
Eleven days later, Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers got to see Star Wars. His verdict: "Pure fun." Rademaekers interviewed Lucas for ten hours, mostly at the Twentieth Century-Fox studio, where final cuts in the film were being made. "There were no director's luncheons at the Brown Derby," says Rademaekers. "Instead, it was 'lunch' at 3 a.m. in a hash house, then back to the studio to follow Reel 12 for the 114th time, with Lucas painstakingly going over the sounds of music, footsteps and explosions...
...even more turbulent saga than the brouhaha surrounding it. Bertolucci uses the lives of two friends born on the same day in 1900 to trace the major social and political upheavals of 50 years of Italian life (a better English rendering of the title, Novecento, might be Twentieth Century). Bertolucci's bias is frankly Marxist. His scenario, set in the rural Po valley, celebrates the rise of the Communist movement among the peasants and its ordeal under decadent landowners and brutal Fascists. Is this waving of the Red flag the real reason for the movie's rejection? Nobody...