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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Side Story. Well. Well well. Hmmm.... Yes. Hate to say it, but I think this film is shit. That's a highly personal opinion--the movie won a ton of Oscars and has left millions sobbing away for poor Natalie Wood. Steal "Romeo and Juliet"--or borrow it under the pretense of "relevantizing" it (as if it weren't already relevant), throw in some beautiful and awful songs and bits of schlockified Copland by Leonard Bernstein, give it a pseudo-daring "tough" script by ol' Arthur Laurents.... well, the ingredients are right for a classic stage, and then film...
...great deal of violence, and a long, agonizing sequence in which Voight tortuously scales the face of a cliff. But ultimately "Deliverance" is most upsetting in its suggestion that civilize man has lost his primitive self-sufficiency. James Dickey has a chilling cameo as a small town sheriff; and yes, this is the movie that made "Dueling Banjos" a hit. (Though purists will note that the duel is actually between a banjo and a guitar...
...what of the game? Ah, yes, the game...
...through the night, across America from California to Brooklyn. Inside was a precious cargo whose street value in New York would be double its West Coast price. Thousands of packs were unloaded at one distributor's warehouse, then channeled stealthily to selected candy and variety shops. Candy shops? Yes, the cargo was destined to feed the latest kid candy craze: Pop Rocks. Says the Brooklyn distributor: "The kids are like junkies-hungry for the stuff. It's the fastest-moving new candy I've ever seen...
...warning seriously-it amounts to an injunction to silence-they would hardly have dared anything as vulgar as a TV show. But in telling the story as soap opera enlarged to historic proportions, the producers never truly penetrated the tragedy or even permitted themselves to observe its symptoms clearly. Yes: naked men, machine-gunned, topple into a ditch. But the sight, in Holocaust, is weirdly unpersuasive. The men seem so obviously to be extras jumping...