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Monday August 06, 2012Movie Review: The Shadow (1994)
Of all the pulpy predecessors that Hollywood tried to turn into franchises in the wake of "Superman" (1978) and "Batman" (1989)—e.g., "Flash Gordon" (1980), "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" (1981), "Tarzan, the Ape Man" (1981), and "The Phantom" (1996)—the Shadow actually had a shot. For one, he's cool. He's got the long, dark trenchcoat flapping in the breeze, the fedora pulled low, the tendency, as with post-Eastwood action heroes, to shoot first and ask questions later. Plus his catchphrase is one of the greatest of the era: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows, ah ha ha ha ha!"
"The Shadow" (1994), written by David Koepp ("Jurassic Park"; "Spider-Man") and directed by Russell Mulcahy (Spandau Ballet's "True"), has a shot, too. It opens the way of Tim Burton's "Batman": Bad guys are doing evil—in this case, throwing a Chinese scientist, who witnessed a crime, off a bridge—when a dark avenger appears, scares/kills the bad guys, announces himself, and then, as the music wells, poof, he's gone.
Except, oh right, that's not the way "The Shadow" begins. It begins in the opium fields of Tibet, where a man is being dragged into an opium den by two guys, who, a shot later, from inside the den, become two different guys (so much for continuity), and place the hapless man before an evil, shadowed warlord. We think the bad guy is being introduced here but it's actually our hero, Lamont Cranston, played by a bare-chested Alec Baldwin wearing a long, straggly wig. An American doughboy during World War I, he stayed behind, turned to dope, and became this. He quickly demonstrates his evil ways by shooting both prisoner and trusted aid and leading his minions in laughter. But in the next scene he's dragged from his bed and taken before a Tulku, or a Tibetan teacher, who says he will turn him into a hero. "You know what evil lurks in the hearts of men," the Tulku says, "for you have seen that evil in your own heart."
That's not a bad idea—the Shadow knows because the Shadow's been there—but it's all so poorly handled. Alec is already getting a bit doughy here, the wig looks ridiculous, and, most important, Cranston's shift from doing evil to preventing it is handled off-stage. After Cranston battles a knife that comes to life, with a fierce, fanged face on the handle, he asks the Tulku if he's in Hell. "Not yet," the Tulku replies as the music wells. Then these words appear on the screen:
The price of redemption for Cranston was to take up man's struggle against evil. The Tulku taught him to cloud men's minds, to fog their vision through force of concentration, leaving visible the only thing he can never hide—his Shadow.
Thus armed, Cranston returned to his homeland, that most wretched lair of villainy we know as ....
New York City
Seven Years Later
Which leads to the scene on the bridge.
So how did the Tulku change him? Who knows? Why did the Tulku pick him? Who knows? The Shadow may know what evil lurks ... but we know shit about the Shadow. And we never find out.
Some of it still works. Each man the Shadow saves becomes part of his team, and each is giving a glowing red ring and a secret password (The sun is shining/But the ice is slippery); then they communicate through a Rube Goldberg system of pneumatic tubes crisscrossing the city. The whole thing has a secret-club/treehouse vibe to it. It's appeals to the 8-year-old boy in all of us. "Kids, you can help 'the Shadow,' too!"
Plus: "clouding men's minds" is basically the Jedi mind trick. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if that's how it was ultimately pitched: "It's Batman, dressed like Darkman, who can do the Jedi mind trick! Can't miss!"
"It's Batman, dressed like Darkman, who can do the Jedi mind trick! Can't miss!"
It does. After the scene on the bridge, Cranston has dinner with his Uncle Wainwright (Jonathan Winters), the chief of police, at a swanky nightclub. Wainwright, echoing or foreshadowing complaints about Don Diego Vega, Bruce Wayne, et al., worries, without much sympathy, that his rich playboy nephew is wasting his life; then he gets word of another Shadow sighting and decides to appoint a task force to the vigilante. At this point, Cranston immediately retreats into the shadows, save for a strip of light across his eyes, and we hear the following:
Lamont: You're not going to appoint a task force.
Uncle Wainwright: No. I'm not going to appoint a task force.
Lamont: You're not going to pay any attention to these reports of The Shadow.
Uncle Wainwright: Ignore them entirely.
This might've been cool if it hadn't already been done better 17 years earlier by Alec Guinness; if Cranston wasn't doing it both family and the law; and if Winters' line readings didn't veer naturally toward the comedic.
A second later, Cranston meets Margo Lane (Penelope Ann Miller), who isn't bad with the ESP thing, either, which is why he decides to steer clear of her. Ah, but fate. Shiwan Khan (John Lone), the last descendant of Genghis Khan, shows up in New York, via museum exhibit, and, determined to become the Emperor of the World, takes over the mind of Margo's father, Dr. Reinhardt Lane (Ian McKellen, wasted), who works for the Dept. of Defense on a top-secret mission. Cranston pieces it all together, later, with the help of the Chinese scientist, Dr. Tam (Sab Simono), he saved on the bridge:
Tam: I guess you'd call it an implosive-explosive molecular device.
Lamont: Or an ... atomic bomb.
Tam: Hey, that's catchy.
As with the above, tones are off throughout the movie. Opportunities are wasted. Shiwan Khan is evil with a capital "E." At one point, he takes a cab, can't pay, so he clouds the taxi driver's mind to drive his cab into a gas tank, which explodes while Khan stands there laughing. Mwa-ha-ha-ha! It's 1930s pulp villainy—right down to the race of the bad guy.
So the atom bomb is built, six years before the real thing, two years before we even entered the war, and Khan uses it to blackmail NYC for ... millions? Billions?
Why the blackmail ruse? He's just going to blow it up anyway. And why America? It's 1939. Nazi Germany is on the march with its "master race" and lebensraum talk. Isn't Hitler your true competition at this point?
The most laughable moment in the movie may be when Lane's ne'er-do-well and randy assistant, Farley Claymore (Tim Curry), traps The Shadow in a water tank and fills it up with water. Cranston then communicates with Margo, over a distance of miles, to come to his rescue, but when she finally shows up and he's completely underwater, he still needs to mouth, through the glass window of the door, the words "Open the door." That should've been obvious without the ESP.
Baldwin coasts here. Lone overacts. Ultimately the movie comes down to a battle of minds, but who wants to watch minds battling? Even George Lucas was smart enough to give his Jedis, with their mind tricks, light sabres.
"The Shadow" isn't horrific but it's hardly good. In the end, Lamont kisses Margo, then walks off.
Lamont: I'll see you later.
Margo: Hey, how will you know where I am?
Lamont (smiles): I'll know...
God, that's lame. The Shadow may know, but "The Shadow" knows shit.
"The sun is shining." "But the ice is slippery."
Tags: Movie Reviews, Superhero Movies, The Shadow, Alec Baldwin, David Koepp, Vigilante Movies
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Movie Review: Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" is a traditional three-act story of rise, fall and redemption. Its first act, like the first act of a superhero movie, contains the dawning realization of power: the chess prowess of seven-year-old Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc), who may be the next Bobby Fischer. In the second act, Josh acquires two teachers: Vinnie (Larry Fishburne), a speed-chess hustler at Washington Square Park in New York, who fascinates Josh, and who represents a style of chess that is aggressive, streetwise and American; and Bruce Pandolfini (Ben Kingsley), a national master at the Manhattan Chess Club, who is hired by Josh's father, Fred (Joe Mategna), to teach Josh, and who represents a style of chess that is cautious, erudite and European. The two styles and teachers clash, of course, and a rival—seven-year-old Jonathan Poe (Michael Nirenberg)—is discovered, and fear is introduced. That's why the fall. It's only when Josh intuitively combines the two chess styles in the third act that redemption is possible and final victory achieved.
I saw the movie when it was released in 1993 and liked it. I saw it recently, after Patricia and I watched Liz Garbus' excellent HBO documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World," and was disappointed. Immediately.
The film, based upon a true story, opens with kids playing hide-and-seek in Washington Square Park. We focus on the birthday boy, Josh, doe-eyed and big-shoed, who runs, hides under a bush, and finds a chess piece there, a knight, lying on the ground. He looks around. He sees men playing various games, vaguely trash talking. Then, reflected in the sunglasses of one of these men, he sees a chess board, and the soundtrack music rises triumphantly. That's when my heart fell. The moment just doesn't happen; the moment is crowned with music. In case we might miss it.
The movie keeps doing this. It keeps nudging us. It's written and directed by Steven Zaillian, based upon Fred Waitzkin's book, and I wouldn't be surprised if Zaillian or some studio hand kept bringing up "The Natural," the Robert Redford film, as a model. The movie is similarly nostalgic, even though its time-frame is recent if unspecific; it's similarly melodramatic, even though it's about a real boy rather than a mythic creation. We keep getting magic-hour light, too. That's probably why its only Oscar nomination was for cinematography. The Academy can't get enough of magic-hour light.
So is the opening scene the first time Josh discovers chess? We don't know. When does he become friends with Vinnie? We don't know. When does his mother, Bonnie (Joan Allen), no longer fear the Washington Square hustlers, as she does initially, but actually prefer them to the uptight and unlikable Bruce Pandolfini? We don't know.
We don't get any of that. Instead we get adult reactions and arguments about what to do with Josh. Should he focus completely on chess? Should he focus on it at all? Is Vinnie's aggressive brand of speed chess ruining Josh's game, as Bruce contends?
In the middle of a school conference, Josh's grade-school teacher (Laura Linney) suggests—with everyone, including Josh, within earshot—that Josh needs to think about more than chess. She suggests he's becoming isolated. Is he? We never really see him in his day-to-day so we don't know. But we do know that Fred makes sense when he tells her (again, in front of everybody) the following:
He's better at this than I've ever been at anything in my life. He's better at this than you'll ever be at anything. My son has a gift. He has a gift, and when you acknowledge that, then maybe we will have something to talk about.
Good lines. The question is what do you do with it? How do you bring out the gift? The movie ultimately favors a "Let Josh be Josh" strategy. Josh's second-act fall occurs not only because he fears his new rival but because the game stops being fun for him. Vinnie is fun; Bruce is not. Vinnie hangs outside; Bruce is almost always seen in airless rooms. Vinnie is cool, relaxed, wears weightlifting gloves for no discernible reason; Bruce is erect, tight-lipped, and encourages a contempt for the world, and for Josh's opponents, that is the opposite of Josh's natural decency.
So Josh begins to lose. On purpose. Because it's all too much.
How does Josh revive in the third act? Again: who knows? His father brings his trophies into his room ("These belong to you"), which is a kind of metaphoric gesture (I.e., your talents belong to you, not to me or any other adult). Then he takes him back to Washington Square Park for a game with Vinnie. Then suddenly we're in Chicago for the nationals, both teachers in tow, where Josh wins by utilizing both teachers' strategies and by being himself. He offers his rival a draw, for example, before he beats him. In the midst of cutthroat competition, he remains decent.
I actually believe this to be a true lesson: To achieve true success, one has to be as authentically oneself as possible.
I also believe this to be a false lesson. The film implies that to succeed at the highest levels one need not sacrifice anything. Before the tournament, unlike the other poor kids chained to their chessboards, Josh goes on a two-week fishing trip with his father. At the end of the movie, we're told that Josh, the real Josh, is currently the highest-ranked player in the U.S. under 18. "He also plays baseball, basketball, football and soccer, and in the summer goes fishing," we're told.
Sacrifice schmacrifice.
I wanted to like "Searching for Bobby Fischer" again, but it's too sweet, too false by half. It forces structure onto a real story and wrecks it. I don't know if the real Josh Waitzkin went through a rise/fall/redemption cycle but we do know that the real Bruce Pandolfini was Brooklyn-born, easy-going, and popular with his students. Unfortunately a film needs conflict and drama, and Kingsley's Pandolfini is the route they chose. Shame. It's sad when a movie is based upon a true story and you walk away thinking, "I didn't buy it."
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Movie Review: Cobb (1994)
I watched "Cobb" the other night because I mistakenly thought a friend suggested upgrading its standing in my list of the best and worst baseball movies ever made. He'd actually suggested downgrading "Cobb." He was right.
A common conversation among movie buffs and egotists is naming the actor you'd like to play you in the movies. A less common conversation is who you wouldn't want for the role. I'll start that one. I wouldn't want Robert Wuhl to play me.
Case in point: "Cobb," written and directed by Ron Shelton of "Bull Durham" fame. It's 1960, and Al Stump (Wuhl), a sportswriter on the rise, is hired to ghostwrite the autobiography of aged and dying baseball legend Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones). Yes, he's heard the rumors about what a bastard Cobb is. But it's Ty Cobb. So he drives to Cobb's home, near Lake Tahoe, buoyant and practically whistling a tune.
Turns out the rumors were off. Cobb isn't a bastard. He's a pistol-shooting, morphine-shooting-up, racist, sexist, reckless, abusive and criminally prosecutable bastard.
Stump keeps realizing this for the first hour of the movie. Let me repeat that: He keeps realizing this. Cobb does crazy shit (shoots his gun at Stump) and Stump looks dumbfounded and says "He's crazy!" Then Cobb does more crazy shit (drives Stump off a mountain road) and Stump looks dumbfounded and says "He's crazy!" Here's where a better actor than Wuhl might have helped, might have given us something more than dumbfounded, but that's all Wuhl's got. He traffics in dumbfounded.
Why doesn't Al Stump just walk away? Does he need the gig that much? Not really. Does he need to be near greatness? Maybe. Could the movie have explored this need? Sure, but then it would've been a better movie. Instead: in this corner, Crazy, in that corner, Dumbfounded. Ding ding.
It gets worse. In Reno, on stage with Louis Prima, Cobb insults blacks, Jews, women and Louis Prima. Meanwhile, Stump has hooked up briefly, and, under the circumstances, tenderly, with cigarette girl/hard-luck case Ramona (Lolita Davidovich, Shelton's wife), and the two are slow dancing in his hotel room when Cobb, like a vengeful fury, bursts into the room, decks Stump, and literally drags Ramona to his own hotel room, where he forces her to strip at gunpoint and attempts to rape her. "Now you take off them goddamned clothes," he says. "Get on the bed," he says. "Lay down and turn around," he says.
Not exactly "Pride of the Yankees."
So what do you do if the hero of your story is really a villain? That's the dilemma for both Al Stump, writing Cobb's autobiography, and Ron Shelton, writing and directing "Cobb."
Stump's solution is to write two books: 1) the hagiography he shows to Cobb but plans to throw away once Cobb dies; and 2) the real book about their experiences together that exposes Cobb for what he is. Question: Could this second book have even been published in1961? "Ball Four," which blew the lid off of the pretty lies of Major League baseball, is nine years and a cultural tsunami away.
(For the record, the real Al Stump ultimately published two books: the ghostwritten autobiography, "My Life in Baseball: The True Record," shortly after Cobb's death in July 1961, and "Cobb: A Biography," more than 30 years later, in 1994, in which he revealed the less heroic elements of the Georgia Peach. No indication, in the movie, on the 30-year delay.)
Stump's solution isn't great but Shelton's is worse. First, he makes Cobb almost cartoonish in his villainy. In a flashback scene to his playing days, we see Cobb get into a fistfight at every base (at every base), while in present-day 1960 Jones cackles and grins like Mephisto. It makes his performance as Two Face in "Batman Forever" seem subtle.
Against this, Shelton attempts to evoke our sympathy. Ah, Cobb's got cancer. Ah, Cobb can't get it up. Ah, Cobb helps out destitute ballplayers like Mickey Cochrane, who later turn their backs on him. Those guys are mean.
Plus Cobb is always right—and Stump is always wrong—about almost everything. Cobb shoots at a deer with a shaky hand and claims to have hit it in the neck, which Stump denies ... until Stump comes across the dead door in the woods. Cobb says he has final say on his autobiography, which Stump denies ... until he phones his agent and discovers Cobb does have final say. Etc.
Most important, Cobb is honest. "By writing two versions I was becoming what Cobb was not," Stump says in melancholy voiceover halfway through the film. "I was becoming a liar." Cobb goes for what he wants—whether it's that deer in the woods or Ramona in his hotel room—while Stump, poor bastard, poor everyman, equivocates and assumes the best in others. He's accommodating. And the world shits on an accommodating man. That's the lesson here. Stump thinks he and his wife, separated for a few months, are working things out, which Cobb laughs at; and sure enough, late in the film, in a cabin in the middle of the night, Stump is served divorce papers. Cobb was right again! So what does Stump do? He pistol-whips the poor bastard serving him. He uses Cobb's accent and waves Cobb's gun in the injured man's face. It's a worm-turns moment that the movie views positively—or at least comically. See? Accommodating Stump crazy; crazy Cobb counseling caution. Funny.
The true insult in the film is the "Citizen Kane" analogy. The movie begins with a "New of the World" feature, like "Kane," and it's also, like "Kane," a movie-length attempt at uncovering the childhood secret that explains the man. For Kane, it was "Rosebud," his dying words, and the symbol of his innocent upbringing. For Cobb, it's the death of his father, a great man, who is killed by this mother. The father apparently suspected the mother of infidelity and returned early from a business trip to spy on her. The mother apparently suspected the shadowy figure outside her bedroom to be a burglar, or worse, and shot him dead. That's the story we get from Cobb halfway through "Cobb" but near the end he adds a wrinkle. The father was right. The mother was cheating. And it was her lover, her very naked lover, who shoots the father dead. "The last thing my father saw was the face of the man fucking his wife," says Cobb in Tommy Lee Jones' plaintive voice. "That what you want to know?"
The scene takes place at the Cobb mausoleum in a Georgia cemetery. And why are they at this cemetery? It just happens to be the place they're driving by when Stump, after months of abusive behavior from Cobb, finally gets fed up, demands the car stop, and walks out on him. And what sets off Stump after months of abusive behavior from Cobb? Well, Stump has just tried to broker a meeting between Cobb and his estranged daughter, who refuses to see him; then he lies to Cobb, telling him that the woman in the window wasn't his daughter. Cobb gently calls him on this lie and this sets off Stump. This. Not being shot at. Not being run off the road. This.
A hagiography would've felt less like a lie than "Cobb."
Tags: Ty Cobb, Movie Reviews, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Baseball Movies
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Movie Review: "Red Hollywood" (1996)
During the inevitable Q&A after a Northwest Film Forum screening of the 1996 documentary, "Red Hollywood," with one of the two documentarians, Thom Andersen, in attendance, an audience member, perhaps equally inevitably, objected to the documentary's very existence.
"Red Hollywood" examines the work of those screenwriters and directors who were blacklisted during the late 1940s and early 1950s. These artists, Andersen and Noel Burch contend, are increasingly portrayed as mere victims of the blacklist, when, as Andersen said in his brief introduction to the film, "They had done something .. working within the confines of the Hollywood system."
That's what bothered this audience member, a Jewish woman in her sixties. She thought that that something was accusatory; that the doc made a hero out of Joe McCarthy.
"Why would you think that?" Andersen responded matter-of-factly. "What, in the documentary, would make you think that?"
She admitted there was nothing in there per se. Her objection was more of the "Why give ammunition to the opposition?" variety. She asked, "Why make the documentary in the first place?"
Andersen, in his 70s now, with unruly white hair, is a quiet, contemplative, occasionally apologetic man. He thought, viewing the doc again, that parts could've been cut. (I agree.) He admitted, yes, maybe they should've talked about the anti-Semitic undertones of the blacklist. But in his response to this question, he wasn't apologetic. Why did he make the doc? He alluded to the last scene we see: Abraham Polonksy reading, charmingly, from his script to "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" (1969), the first film he directed, or got credit for directing, after decades on the blacklist. It's a scene between the hunted Indian, Willie Boy (Robert Blake), and a woman, Lola (Katherine Ross):
Lola: Willie, are you going to kill them?
Willie Boy: If I have to.
Lola: What do you mean, "If you have to?"
Willie Boy: I mean if they keep comin'.
Lola: But they're white, Willie. They'll shoot forever.
Willie Boy: How long is that? Less than you think.
Lola: It's crazy, Willie! You can't win. You can't beat them, Willie, ever.
Willie Boy: Maybe... maybe. But they'll know I was here.
That's why he made the doc, Andersen said. So people will know they were there.
Great response.
My response to the woman's concerns, her fear that the doc was right-wing, was essentially: "You're kidding." Because my response to Andersen's contention that the doc shows the political propaganda of the Hollywood communists is essentially: "That's it?"
There's just not much there there.
Sure, we see the upbeat, smiling tractor lessons of "Song of Russia" (1943), co-written by Paul Jarrico, who, in 1950, was named before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), before which he himself refused to testify; but the movie was essentially American war propaganda, since it put our wartime ally in a good light.
Yes, we see "Mission to Moscow" (1943), made at the behest of FDR, and co-written by Howard Koch, who was blacklisted by Red Channels in the 1950s. Koch's other credits include such communist propaganda as "The Sea Hawk" (1940), "Sergeant York" (1941) and "Casablanca" (1942).
Sure, we get scenes where female factory workers pool their resources to rent one fancy place rather than four crappy ones ("Tender Comrade" (1943), by Dalton Trumbo and Edward Dmytryk, two of the Hollywood 10), and, yes, we get scenes that mock business ("We Who Are Young" (1940), written by Trumbo), or show female independence ("I Can Get It For You Wholesale," from 1951, co-written by Abraham Polonsky), but there's nothing inherently communist or socialist about any of it. If anything, the tepidity of these scenes demonstrates how overwhelmingly conservative Hollywood in the studio era was—and, I would argue, remains.
No, the real propaganda, the propaganda so powerful we don't recognize it as propaganda, isn't from the left at all. It's this: love leads to marriage which leads to a happy ending; good and evil are absolute and obvious; and the best way for a lone man to achieve justice, for himself and others, is through the use of violence. These are the main messages we've been getting from Hollywood for the past 100 years. They are, for all the attacks on Hollywood from the right, essentially conservative messages.
The bigger problem with "Red Hollywood," though, is structural. If the intention of the documentarians is to restore artistic integrity to the artists by owning up to their political viewpoints, why not focus on those artists? Give us sections on Lardner, Trumbo, Polonksy, and Lawson. Make it clear which films they worked on, and what, if anything, could be read into these films, and what, if anything, got cut. Give us a sense of their lives in Hollywood. Give us a sense of the strength of the left in 1930s Hollywood, and of the strength of socialism among 1930s Jewish communities, and how anti-Semitic all the 1940s and 1950s red-baiting ultimately was.
Instead, the movie is divided into sections, WAR, CLASS, SEX, HATE, CRIME, which is less illuminating than confusing. It causes us to veer between the early 1930s and early 1950s, vastly different periods in American culture. The writers and directors—who they are and what they believed—are mere afterthoughts in this process.
I like Polonsky and "Willie Boy" but I might've ended the doc with "Salt of the Earth," a 1954 film, written, directed and produced by blacklisted artists, which showed, for the first time in any film, a strike from the worker's point of view. As interesting to me as the film itself, which is available for streaming online, is the critical reaction from Bowsley Crowther, the generally conservative movie reviewer for The New York Times. After delineating the troubled people behind the production, and the troubled production itself, he wrote:
In the light of this agitated history, it is somewhat surprising to find that "Salt of the Earth" is, in substance, simply a strong pro-labor film with a particularly sympathetic interest in the Mexican-Americans with whom it deals ...
The real dramatic crux of the picture is the stern and bitter conflict within the membership of the union. It is the issue of whether the women shall have equality of expression and of strike participation with the men. And it is along this line of contention that Michael Wilson's tautly muscled script develops considerable personal drama, raw emotion and power.
Even let loose outside the studio system, these blacklisted writers, directors and producers, commie bastards all, simply wanted to tell a good story.
Tags: Dalton Trumbo, What Liberal Hollywood, Hollywood Blacklist
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Review: "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (1991)
"Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" is as uneven as Kevin Costner's accent within it. It begins gritty and ends in high camp. Robin is heroic, then childish, then heroic again. He assumes leadership of a band of outlaws without being a leader, and he's actually upstaged in almost every department (dignity, warmth, love) by his right-hand man, Azeem (Morgan Freeman), who demonstrates more leadership in professing to follow Robin Hood than Robin Hood does in professing to lead anyone. Robin can't even win a swordfight against a high-camp version of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) without the old knife-from-the-boot trick. Aside from some pretty cool archery skills, one wonders why this guy became the legend. Shouldn't we be watching the story of Azeem, Thief of Hearts?
"Prince of Thieves" is the third major film version of Robin Hood and it's interesting to see how it deviates from the Fairbanks and Flynn versions. Most notably, the Crusades were still celebrated in '22; and though the '38 version mixed in a strong sense of post-WWI isolationism (get your own house in order, Jack, before traipsing off to foreign lands), the movie is seen from a wholly Christian perspective, beginning with the opening title card:
In the year of our Lord 1191 when Richard, the Lion-Heart, set forth to drive the infidels form the Holy Land, he gave the Regency of his Kingdom to his trusted friend, Longchamps...
The language in the '91 opening title card is less dramatic:
800 years ago, Richard "The Lionheart," King of England, led the third Great Crusade to reclaim the Holy Land from the Turks. Most of the young English noblemen who flocked to his banner never returned home.
Royalty disappears. In '22, King Richard and Robin are best friends. In '38, Richard and Robin fight side-by-side in the third act. By '91, Richard, now with quotes around "The Lionheart," is relegated to a last-minute wedding blessing, while Prince John, the main villain in the first versions, is nowhere to be seen. He's been replaced by the Sheriff of Nottingham, who, in '22, was a walk-on, and in '38 was comic relief. Here he actually has his eye on the throne. He also has a name, George, which adds nothing, and a devil-worshipping witch-mother, which adds nothing but weirdness.
Right-hand man? From Little John ('22) to Will Scarlett ('38) to Azeem, the Moor.
Will Scarlett? Turns out he's Robin's illegitimate half-brother.
Marian? She's nearly raped on camera, to comic effect.
The thing's a mess.
It begins in a Turkish prison in Jerusalem, 1194 A.D., where Holy Crusaders are being tortured and maimed. Robin, with five years hair and beard growth, stoically volunteers himself for a maiming instead of his friend Peter. "This is English courage," he says with an American accent. Then he breaks himself free, along with Peter, and a nearby Moor, Azeem, who promises to show the way out. In the escape, he loses Peter, brother of Marian, to an arrow, but gains Azeem. "You have saved my life, Christian," Azeem says. "I must stay with you until I have saved yours. That is my vow." He says all this with Morgan Freeman's voice, which makes it even cooler.
We later learn that Robin was a bit of a brat as a child—the Sheriff calls him a "whelp" and Marian tells him: "All I remember of you is a spoiled bully who used to burn my hair"—but his years in prison seem to have changed him. Until he returns to England. Then he seems a child again. He guffaws when he finds out why Azeem was locked up. "Because of a woman? That's it, isn't it? That's it!" A scene later, he sobs into Azeem's chest when they find the skeleton of Robin's father strung up in a cage at the remains of Locksley Manor. I suppose the filmmakers wanted character development but, for the viewer, it's such a sharp contrast to our stoic English prisoner. The unevenness has begun.
Robin quickly makes enemies with Guy of Gisbourne (Michael Wincott), cousin to the Sheriff, and he, Azeem and the blind servant, Duncan (Walter Sparrow), flee into Sherwood Forest. There, across a large stream, he tangles with a band of outlaws, notably John Little (Nick Brimble), and bests him by taking him by surprise. Back at the outlaws' camp, he suggests fighting back against the powers-that-be. Everyone scoffs but he makes trouble in town, cutting the Sheriff's cheek, and raising the bounty on his head—a source of pride with him. There's a nice dynamic here that should've been underlined: The more Guy and the Sheriff search for Robin, the more homeless people they create, and the more these people wander into Sherwood and become part of Robin's army. Will Scarlett (Christian Slater), with a huge chip on his shoulder, blames Robin for their misery, and Azeem counsels against forging an army ("Christian, these are simple people, they are not warriors"), but it all comes together anyway. Arrows are made, people are trained, treehouses are created. Friar Tuck, a bit of a drunkard, is brought aboard and initially clashes with the infidel, until, for the 10th time in the movie, Azeem uses his superior scientific knowledge—this time to help a breach baby get born. Then they're pals.
The Sheriff, meanwhile, flailing inside his castle, fights back with black arts, treachery, and fierce Celts from the North. After Marian is abducted, Duncan, the blind servant, unknowingly leads the Sheriff and the Celts back to Robin's hideout. Though Robin's army handle the first assault, they cannot withstand a barrage of flaming arrows and either flee, die or are captured. The Sheriff then threatens the lives of children to force Marian to wed him—to link him to royal blood so he'll have an avenue to the throne—and, to honor their wedding day, he plans to hang 10 of the merry men in the town square. Robin, of course, and the few survivors (Azeem, Little John, his wife, Will Scarlett), plan otherwise. But no one's plan works as planned.
Before the Sheriff goes off to camp.
The Flynn version was not only clean of grit and bad language, it was clean in terms of storytelling: 102 minutes and out. The Costner version, in comparison, rambles and shambles, hesitates and backtracks for either 143 minutes, or an interminable 155 minutes in the extended version, and a lot of this is unnecessary. Did we really need Celts, for example? Did we need the black-arts subplot? I'll give you Will as Robin's half-brother, even if it leads to one of the worst line readings in the movie (Robin: I have a brother? I have a brother!); but did we also need to find out the witch was really the Sheriff's mother? Alan Rickman got raves next to Costner when the movie came out, but he's so over-the-top he's really in another movie. He's in a comedy. Alright I'll say it: he's awful. The only thing more awful are some of his lines. When in angry mood: "No more table scraps for the orphans... And call off Christmas!" When visiting his torture chamber: "Sorry to keep you hanging about." As for the end—when he tries to rape Marian at the altar in front of the Bishop? To what end? Look, he's a smart-enough guy. His world is crashing all around him, and marrying and impregnating Marian would stop none of the crashing. It's only there to provide this temporary tension for the audience: Can Robin stop the rape in time? Wow, he does.
Costner, whose acting I defended a few years back, has his moments, particularly when he needs to be heroic, dashing, athletic. He can do these things but seems reluctant to do them. At times he also has gravitas. Then he opens his mouth, trying for that British accent, and out comes mostly flat, nasal Californian. Planning for the final assault, he suddenly adopts what sounds like a Bronx accent. As a joke? Were there no other takes? Who edited this thing? His 1991 mullet doesn't hold up, either. Can Robin Hood ever have a decent haircut?
He's good in the action scenes...and when not opening his mouth.
Tuck's British accent—the actor is from Massachusetts—is pretty lousy, too. Mastrantonio is fine, beautiful, and Freeman as always is a joy. That look of pure delight on his face when the little girl at camp asks him if God painted his face. His speech before the townspeople after the hangings go awry: " I am not one of you but I fight for you! I fight with Robin Hood!" It's a great moment but it underlines Robin's own lack of leadership. Shouldn't Robin have given such a speech? At least once?
Michael Wincott makes an effective, scary Gisbourne. He's the villain the movie should've had. But overall the thing is a mess. Director Kevin Reynolds gives us a long sloppy affair that's full of movie clichés. Marian, scared, hears noises in her home. Oh, whew, it's just a cat. No it isn't! Battles rage, but, oh whew, the Sheriff and his witch-mother are dead. No, she's isn't!
So what did all of this mean? The second-highest domestic gross of 1991: $165 million. But gross doesn't necessarily mean popularity. I'd argue "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" was one of those movies, like "Spider-Man 3" or "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," that everyone went to see, and then everyone agreed that everyone shouldn't have gone to see it. It wasn't necessarily robbing from the rich, but it was definitely robbing.
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As we know, our bodies are composed of billions of cells, each with a specific design and purpose. In every one of those cells, there are genes composed of DNA that contain the operational blueprint for that cell. When there is an alteration or mutation of a gene, the cell's behavior is impacted. Mutations can cause a positive or a negative change in the gene. Scientisits first discoved the BRCA1 gene in 1994; when it is working normally, it actually suppresses the abnormal growth of breast cells. Mutations in the BRCA1 gene can stimulate the growth and are associated with genetic or familial breast or ovarian cancers. There are three known gene mutations that can cause these diseases: BRCA1, BRCA2, and the so-called "Jewish breast cancer gene", 185delAG. Very recently, there have been discoveries of a number of additional genes whose mutations are seen in women with breast cancer. Although there is now screening for these additional genes (for women with a positive personal or family history who have tested negative for the usual three), there is little known about their meaning.
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Has anyone ever seen "Serious Reactor Error" (see attached)?
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The routine is the one causing the error message, it is conflicting with another portion of the software…
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If that is the tool that you are using, it was create it to be use on ACAD 2010, with that been said some times this type of tools could work on newer versions but it looks like something is conflicting with 2012, that is a programming error.
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Starting last Saturday, as my NaNoWriMo group members were hard at work at their desks; I was hard at work on mine. They were all starting novels, with one month to finish. I was starting my desk, removing its finish.
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It just so happens my ritual involves beginning a biggish project that has only some vague connection to the actual endeavor I should be starting instead.
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For years, a folding table has served as my desk at home. As folding tables go, it's not bad, but if I get to typing faster than 85 words a minute, it starts swaying side to side. If I were writing a sea adventure, such ambiance would be awesome.
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