Word: unconsciousably
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As filming dragged on, the fabled Russian winter set in. To protect against temperatures that plunged at times to 18 below zero, the crew had to wrap equipment in blankets; once indoors, lights frequently shattered because of the temperature change. After shivering on frigid sets, the cast finally obtained two...
When the keys landed a few feet from Hamilton's feet, he and his friends threw a bottle at Mann's window and challenged the three students on the street to a fight, said Greaney. Despite his protests, Greaney was beaten, kicked and knocked unconscious.
It started with a dead bug. The squashed insect dropped into a typewriter at the Ministry of Information Retrieval; a bureaucrat typed the name Tuttle instead of Buttle; and poor apolitical Mr. Buttle, instead of the swashbuckling terrorist Tuttle, was taken away to be tortured and killed. Dear me, mistakes...
But suddenly the set explodes--it actually goes "boom"--giving way to a series of increasingly nightmarish scenarios that spill across the stage as they expand into the far reaches of Prum's unconscious mind. And to be sure, the inventive psychological meanderings are a Freudian's picnic.
A large part of the film's quirky charm is due to Walcutt. He plays Day with an unconscious honesty that makes the character instantly likeable and believeable. Playing Day as something of an innocent, Walcutt's childlike spontaneity endears him to the audience, overriding the distance automatically created by...