Word: ventriloquistic
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...very low-key, nice people" but noticed that their discussions about dogs "sounded like they were about children." This struck him as funny, and he spent a year visiting dog shows. The director--who appears in his film as a bloodhound owner who really wants to be a ventriloquist--is also into technique. "In the past 10 years," he says, "film has become very unspontaneous, whether it's using digital technology or being very storyboarded. This is the other end of the spectrum. Yes, it is just people talking, but that is just as exciting...
...This struck him as funny, and he spent a year visiting dog shows. The director - who appears in his film as a bloodhound owner who really wants to be a ventriloquist - is also into technique. "In the last 10 years," he says, "film has become very unspontaneous, whether it's using digital technology or being very storyboarded. This is the other end of the spectrum. Yes, it is just people talking, but that is just as exciting to me as a big wave...
Demi Moore: Big Wicker Ventriloquist...
...Lenin and syphilis cells in the lobby of Rockefeller Center, so he orders the mural jackhammered off of the wall in a strikingly literal expression of the casual tyranny of commerce. Yet perhaps the most poignant thread of the film is its only fictional tale, that of an aging ventriloquist (Bill Murray), who, with the help of Joan Cusack's rabble-rousing character, turns against the Federal Theater when he suspects Communist influence. He later comes to regret sacrificing his art when, with sublime irony, his own dummy turns against...
...people onto a garish movie mural, Diego Rivera-style. While Welles (MacFayden) and producer John Houseman (Elwes) try to persuade their government patron (Jones) not to cancel the show, Nelson Rockefeller (Cusack) romances Rivera (Blades), then literally trashes his work. There's also a young actress (Watson), an old ventriloquist (Murray), a swank saleswoman for fascism (Sarandon)--just about anyone who was alive then, and dabbling in the arts, is in this too-much of a movie...