Word: vulgarizer
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UNFORTUNATELY, Drach's view of the contemporary significance of the occupation remains obscure as well. The implied connection between a vulgar, greedy film producer, a policeman beating a demonstrating student and Michel experiences in the occupation is never clarified. The student is hardly a sympathetic figure--his rhetoric is simplistic and his behavior infurlatingly self-righteous--yet the director suggests that his resistance to the French police today is somehow analogous to his resistance to Vichy. Nevertheless, though his understanding of this connection is unsatisfying, Drach has found an effective formal means--the intercutting of color and black-and-white...
Prufrocks in Reverse. Using ordinary language and sometimes vulgar mannerisms, the two Prufrocks reverse their accustomed stage personae to hint at tenuous meanings as complex as any in Eliot's poetry. Gielgud, a seedy intellectual in beer-stained pinstripes, conceals his natural grace and authority under nervous movements-hitching up his pants, ruffling his sandy-haired wig, filching cigarettes. He babbles an obbligato of literary cliches in an excessively ingratiating attempt to establish human contact. Richardson's stock character, the failed dreamer, prefers to stay pick led in his past: his arm now is to "drink with dignity...
...daughter Faye (Karen Black) is the sort of teasing, intemperate beauty who slaughters men with a smile. Karen Black is a bothersome actress at best, strident and sloppy; she does not even have what acting schools call "the physical apparatus" to be sensual. Faye represents another hopeless dream whose vulgar impossibility is supposed to make her, like Hollywood itself, all the more seductive. She must be ruinously alluring; Black merely looks wrecked...
...that anyone is likely to be bored while the film is building up to this climactic vulgarity. Writer Wexler and Director Fleischer treat us to gaudy depictions of all the evils in the Old South that we have learned to know and loathe. We have scarcely settled into our seats before Falconhurst's Young Massah is venturing across the color line to find true sexual happiness. Floggings, hangings, slave auctions and gory combats follow in quick succession. There are sadistic assaults on prepubescent black girls and a good deal of bother about incest. James Mason, as the plantation...
Grip on Destiny. His Truman is spunky, combative, resilient, profanely funny, fundamentally honest, profoundly patriotic, and vulgar in the best sense: that is, of the earth, earthy. Amazingly, Whitmore captures the mystique of the presidency and the rock-hard reality of making final decisions. One actually does believe that this is the Truman who ordered the atomic bomb dropped, met with Stalin and Churchill as peers, initiated the Marshall Plan, and fired Douglas MacArthur. He reminds us almost too vividly of a time when both the individual and the country had a better grip on their destinies than they have...