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...Edzard does convey the tone of the play masterfully. Despite the hearty doese of romance, "As You Like It" revels in a misanthropic melancholy. The faceless, charmless interior sets of lobbies and corridors convey a barren, hollow grandeur, whole the bleak urban wasteland of rubble-strewn lots and disused machinery has an equally oppressive effect. London's grey skies and wan, pallid bussinesspeople, seckled with liverspots, contribute to the gloom...
Particularly irking is this film's massive debt to perhaps the greatest film ever made, "The Blues Brothers." I've often wondered why the film industry didn't just up and shut down after that film was released; "The Wasteland" had such an effect on Eliot's contemporaries. "The Blue Brothers" was also a comedy; it also featured a poignant commentary on the decline of post-WWI Europe--oh, no, hang on a second, that was "The Wasteland." The Iudicrous chase scenes from "The Blues Brothers" are clearly a model for "The Chase" in its entirety. But while the former...
...friends to a rich man's sepulcher. Rather, says Crossan, the tales of entombment and resurrection were latter-day wishful thinking. Instead, Jesus' corpse went the way of all abandoned criminals' bodies: it was probably barely covered with dirt, vulnerable to the wild dogs that roamed the wasteland of the execution grounds...
...VAST EKO STAHL steelworks was the life-force of Eisenhuttenstadt, a utopian socialist city of 50,000 southeast of Berlin and the pride of the German Democratic Republic. Today the complex of six factories is a hulk dominated by a single operating blast furnace. It glows over an industrial wasteland near the Polish border where thousands have lost their jobs. Since unification, Eko Stahl has cut 85% of its eastern German work force as it closed or restructured its inefficient and overstaffed - plants. The number at Eisenhuttenstadt has shrunk from 12,000 to 3,500, and the remaining workers...
...Winter Wasteland...