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Unlike most mad scientists, however, Dewitt's object is not to conquer the world with zombies brought back from the grave, nor to steal the brain of a buxom virgin; no, Dewitt aims much higher than those petty goals. His intention is to fuse the breath of life into the lost casualties of Hollywood...
...talent would fully recover. There had been one Warhol before the shooting; another would emerge after it. The former had been the onlooker, both fascinated and wounded by media culture and its power to dictate desire and nostalgia. You could not look at early Warhol (Marilyn-as-virgin, in full drag-queeny apotheosis on a gold ground; Golgotha, envisioned in repeated views of an $ execution chamber with its electric chair and its sign enjoining SILENCE) without sensing that the pressure behind such images of abased sanctity came from a Byzantine Catholic boyhood...
...they are untalented; individually they no doubt can hold their own with the best. But when asked to play a crowd scene as a group of battle-weary marines, these hapless undergrads come closer to innocents abroad. They exude the same kind of pseudo-confidence with which teen-age virgin boys discuss...
...often confusing Despite some sluggishness, however, the lush colors used to capture often horrible scenes are visually fascinating. Even when you don't know what's going on, you become entranced by the mere look of the film. Also, Schygulla's performance is excellent: she's alternately the Virgin Mary in slut's garter belt or Bloody Mary wearing a false halo. At its core, The Marriage of Maria Braun is a story of the mental and moral devastation of war, told in a fashion much like "Alice In Wonderland...
After Cass retired in 1974, he moved to the Virgin Islands where he worked for several years with the public health service on St. John's. Cass convinced the health service to purchase a well-equipped boat which he used to carry emergency patients to the hospital on St. Thomas...