Word: vaughn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...femme fatale-cum-cattle ranch owner, takes revenge on her emotionally retarded son Flyboy (Jeremy Davies) for dropping his role as flunky to become "man of the house." (Flyboy, since his father's suicide, only speaks to said steer.) This sequence, along with a steamy sex scene between Vincent Vaughn and Ashley Judd, had to be heavily edited in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. But even with the editing, it's still a visceral piece of filmmaking. Kelley finds just the right tone to make what could have been the year's grossest cinematic moment, into something that...
...Locusts stars Vaughn (Swingers, The Lost World) as Clay Hewitt, a man on the run who ends up in a small Kansas town, and goes to work at a ranch owned and operated by Capshaw. Capshaw immediately begins to seduce Vaughn, causing sexual tension and rivalry with other ranchers. Clay escapes from the growing soap opera on the range, through his relationship with a local girl (Judd). But when Vaughn befriends Flyboy, teaching him how to be man and not to take abuse from Capshaw, a skewered triangle erupts between the three of them, with Capshaw turning up the sexual...
...impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong with genre fusing or having characters whose individual stories could constitute an entire script in themselves, but this film does it sloppily. By the time The Locusts reaches its wanna-be tragic climax, jumping from Capshaw and Vaughn going head to head to Judd having a picnic with Davies, you feel as if you're watching two different movies. What's meant to be seen as ambitious and dramatically compelling comes across as strung out and hollow...
...actors suffer from the script's lack of focus. Vaughn is likable as Clay, projecting definite screen presence particularly when he is required to be in James Dean mode-but simply doesn't have enough to work with. Capshaw delivers a few good lines, but just never seems mean enough (despite the castration scene) to be a sultry villainess. The great Judd proves once again that she's good enough to act in anything. In one of the quieter scenes in the film, with Judd and Davies sitting in swings at a drive-in movie theater, their faces silhouetted against...
Former comedian Vaughn Meader said that was his response when told of John F. Kennedy's assassination. He thought he was being set up for a punch line. At the time, Meader was one of the country's most popular performers, thanks to his ability to impersonate the 35th President with gently mocking good humor. His 1962 album, The First Family, was the nation's fastest-selling LP ever. No wonder Lenny Bruce is said to have walked onstage the evening of the assassination and, after a respectful pause, to have broken the silence with "Man, poor Vaughn Meader...