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...viewers' jaws drop, along with their resistance, at the movie's brain-bursting visual density. Elaborate backgrounds flash by in a nanosecond. A million film references - Basic Instinct, Aliens, half of the Spielberg oeuvre and probably lots of Asian movies I don't know - collide and spawn a zillion more. Director Jo wants his picture to be hip to cultural references high and low (Diaper King to Beautiful: "Stop acting like Paris Hilton") and especially aware of itself as a gaudy artifact. Toward the end of a long string of traded insults, Ssipak tells Aachi, "You're the worst character...
...stars have to be distinguished from the previous generation: the hyperactive chameleon-comedians Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy. Ferrell doesn't dazzle by slipping into a zillion roles (as he did on Saturday Night Live). He found a persona the audience likes--the lanky, ungainly goof who thinks he's a supreme jock--and he mostly sticks with it. He knows the mass audience wants its stars only in their familiar mode. When they try going upmarket--Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, Sandler in Spanglish--the fan base deserts them...
...Which, in hindsight, was a giant lawsuit waiting to happen.”At Harvard, Ur was hesitant to involve himself in the theater community, but taking note from his freshman roommate, decided to check things out. “Somehow from kinda not getting involved turned into a zillion plays,” he recalls. Ur found the same student-driven motivation at the HRDC, but with more self-direction and more funding than his high school. Surrounded by inspiring, like-minded people and given numerous resources, Ur blossomed creatively. He started designing sets himself rather than following directions...
...years, he had launched his crusade for America to "turn on, tune in, drop out." In other words, you can draw a woozy but vivid line from the sedate offices of J.P. Morgan and Time Inc. in the '50s to Haight-Ashbury in the '60s to a zillion drug-rehab c enters in the '70s. Long, strange trip indeed...
...World” requirement. Whose bright idea was it to study backward civilizations where they don’t even have the wits about them to speak English? I don’t know about you, but my ancestors did not leave the Garden of Eden and travel a zillion miles on a boat just to get to America and have to learn about other people’s cultures. That is just what the terrorists want you to learn! If other cultures were so darn great, God would not have put all of the Indians on reservations...