Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boyd ended his speech with violent words about Harvard students. "You people are in a goldfish bowl Rocky puts us in to make us scared of what they think of us," Boyd said, "and you're being intellectually gutless and stupid not to notice...
...this week's cover story on Portugal's rapidly changing scene, Taber toured the countryside, where the Communist Party's grasp for power has stirred a violent reaction. In Aveiro in northern Portugal, he talked with Catholic foes of the Communists and visited a debris-strewn Communist headquarters that had been wrecked by angry townspeople. The local Communist boss at first refused to talk with the "fascist reactionary press, who only tell lies about us," but agreed to do so after he learned that Taber had already interviewed Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal...
...locations and extras, etc. But his scriptwriter is something to be reckoned with--he has made quite a lot of money for pictures like Dirty Harry, Dillinger, Jeremiah Johnson, Judge Roy Bean. And it's terrifying to know that people responded to these films--they play on the most violent and degrading of fantasies. Fortunately The Wind and the Lion was badly directed, and though it has been making money it's not the smash it was cooked up to be, Lucky...
...involved are the fact that Connery's chieftain is a vicious sadist who carves men in two without blinking or thinking twice. But the only think Bergen's malden can fault him for is being a kidnaper of women and children. If only he were more sexist, about his violent behavior, then he'd be fine. So, the Americans, seeing this kinship of rugged individualism, actually ally themselves with the shelk (in this case the Germans are the villains...
Jaws is almost like a latent dream. While the observer may not consciously realize it, the film offers a metaphor for aggression. It plays out violent tendencies willed but suppressed by the spectator. The relief that meets the end of each shark attack does not just come with the certainty of death, it also marks the relaxation following a thorough purge. Sort of like an easy feeling of release you'd get if you told off the bastard who just fired you. Earthquake had a similiar man-on-the street life gamble element to it but it played on violence...