Word: witting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprising that a first film should be influenced, and Hunter (who knows his Hitchcock and Welles very well) has had the wit to pick good models. I wonder, though, whether his larger view of human relationships and actions hasn't been over-determined by the number of movies he's seen. Is it intentional that the triangle of Cliffie, hero, and ellusive temptress so closely parallels the triangle in Vertigo? I suppose it is, but I can't help preferring the Hunter who very logically (and rather sweetly) sets the recently de-zombied roommate to opening a pile of mail...
Finley's hallmark is his verbal legerdemain. To wit...
...drums-all of which contribute to a complex, light-textured cacophony that is very close to contemporary classical chamber music, especially in long pieces like his Scheme #1. Handy can also produce tongue-in-cheek rock 'n' roll like Blues for a Highstrung Guitar with both wit and warmth...
...college professor and his wife Charlotte, who is one of those beautiful, charming, spontaneous nature girls so dear to the hearts of intellectual novelists. The sparse action is accompanied by heavy circular symbolism: the motorcycle wheels, the twister, Charlotte's abandoned whirling dance, bees circling around the half-wit in numbers that ought to discourage any rapist. In the end, the reader is left going around in circles...
Certainly it is more informative to quote him: passages plucked nearly at random demonstrate his quite unique blend of energetic wit and despair, the despair of a young man whose visions of darkness are constantly lit up by lightning-like storms of adrenalin...