Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...differ from authentically aimless conversation. What makes a set seem real, what enables dialogue to stand for experience is the writer's capacity to create an alternative world, distinctively his own, and lure audiences into it. That talent is the true measure of voice, a blend of personality and vision...
Bernice Abbott: Vision of the Twentieth Century: photographs, MIT Museum, Cambridge, through...
Nowhere does the piece better convey Eliot's sinister vision of his own past than in "Burnt Norton." It initially describes Eliot's childhood memory of being caught in a forbidden garden. Sullivan here downplays an implied reference to the garden of Eden, favoring the psychological rather than the spiritual ramifications of the trespass...
Spielberg and flunky Chris Columbus--who also wrote Gremlins and Goonies (see accompanying story)--have not expanded the modest vision of past Holmes films and the original Doyle stories to fill the epic scope required for Spielberg mega-effects. They have stomped all over the original, creating not a Holmes aided by millions in props and special effects, but a Holmes pulverized by orgasmic Spielbergisms that make anything the hero does seem thoroughly boring...
...Doyle stories, for all the fawning appreciation of the author in the film's concluding credits, serve as no more than a dramatic exoskeleton inside which Spielberg can throw his expensive toys and his retro-vision of adolescents as idealistic voyagers in the harsh world of adult cynicism and nay-saying. This union does not work with an English accent or with a character that could never tell himself "If I just believe in myself it will all come true" and then bicycle over the moon...