Word: vamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vamp is standard baggage in the thriller genre, especially in the Bond films, from which the Indy series took some sideways inspiration. In 1977 Spielberg told Lucas he wanted to make a James Bond movie. "I have something better than James Bond," Lucas replied, and sketched the scenario for Raiders. The Indy series bears traces of the Bond films in its superhero with an edge of surliness, its globe-girdling itineraries, its villains purring megalomania, its neat blend of macho cynicism and schoolboy pluck. But The Last Crusade has something better than James Bond. It has Sean Connery...
...chambers into a huge public square. Such technical sleight of hand was novel when first used back in 1966 in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, but by now it has become a cliche. But then, cliches are also the penchant of director Sonja Frisell, who allows Cossotto to vamp around the stage like a refugee from a Cecil B. DeMille epic...
...career, in fact, Chandler was pulling off a series of bitter twists and brilliant turns on the paradoxes of illusion: the prim secretary from Manhattan is, in truth, from Manhattan, Kans., and turns out to be a tight little chiseler, while the movie-star vamp has a fugitive innocence the more theatrical for being real. Chandler's greatest technical flaw -- his way, ironically, with plots -- arose from the simple fact that he felt the only real mystery worth investigating was morality, and why only the innocent confess, while murderers are brought to no justice but their...
...ACCUSED. Can a slut be raped? That is the question in this engrossing drama about a victimized vamp (Jodie Foster) and an avenging angel of a prosecutor (Kelly McGillis) who pursues her case...
...ACCUSED. Can a slut be raped? That is the question in this engrossing drama about a victimized vamp (Jodie Foster) and an avenging angel of a prosecutor (Kelly McGillis) who pursues her case...