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Friday, April 12, 1974
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'Great Gatsby' Graceful Movie-Except for Redford
By KENN LOUDEN
Kannan Reviewer
Either big budget films aren't in vogue or the major film critics got together and decided to pan "The Great Gatsby," now playing at Hillcrest I. That is the only explanation for the deluge of negative criticism that has been reaped upon the
Unless I saw a different movie.
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Anyway, his book *ISK NOK* is a work decided to decide on the judgment, "The Great Gatsby" is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel. It is a graceful, easy-going film that captures much of the character development.
It is a movie of chivalric dreams confronting the harsh realities of life. The movie is an exotic fable of the unrequited love of Jav Gatsby for Daisy Buchanan.
MOST OF THE CAST are inspiring and manage to catch the essence of Fitzgerald characters. Best of all is the performance by Mia Farrow as Daisy.
Farrow's Duay is like an aerial spirit. She always looks straight ahead, and her surface character is
elusive, but she betrays many hidden emotions.
Daisy is beautiful and spoiled. She tries to be a romantic idealist, but her romantism is tainted by the underlying cynicism of a woman who knows her husband has a lover.
Daisy talks like a siren. She has a "voice
full of money," her Movements are similar to
a Circe performing a magic ritual. She
has a curly hair and wears an earrings.
She has his death—which she unwittingly does.
HER UNHAPPINESS is masked by a talkative, agitated lyricism. Daisy has obviously been chased by sultors all her life and she can't understand how her husband and mother feel. Her performance is a triumph of beauty and frailty mixed with contempt and frustration.
Bruce Dern as Tom Buchanan deserves honors for a Wasp performance that causes the audience to dislike him—but always with reservations. Tom is impersonal and often cruel, but his cruelty is based on a code of ethics he has followed all his life. He is a "great, big, bulking brute of a man," who hates the word hulking.
The supporting characters are all good, Karen Black is type-cast as Myrtle Wilson, and Scott Wilson portrays her husband, George, a convincing cuckold. Lois Chies plays Jordan Baker. She has an icy voice and a cold conscience to match. She is the type of girl who would cheat at golf and not think twice about it.
ONLY ROBERT REDFORD as Gatsby isn't up to par. His characterization is
uneven. At times he catches the essence and looks the part. But when he introduces himself to Nick Carraway as Jay Gatsby, he may as well say, "I'm Robert Redford."
The Redford personality dominates the performance despite a heroic attempt at acting. Perhaps Gatsby should have been portrayed by an unknown actor.
Singles' Sex Guide Lacks Novelty
By ROY CLEVENGER
Kansas Reviewer
"SEX AMONG THE SINGLES" by Stephen Lewis (219 pages; Ace Books; 1973; $1.50)
Kansan Reviewer
Meet Louise. She's 23, a resident of New York City and a member of the singles generation. Let her recount her sexual escapes in immense detail.
Oh no, you gasp, not another sex-and-ingulum
sex-and-ingulum. I'll be the beast he likes, already been overexpressed
If "Sex Among the Singles," by Stephen Lewis, is to provide that answer, there is nothing to be said about anything not to a field already overcrowded with semiscientific sociological studies.
"SEX AMONG THE SINGLES" is essentially a padded checklist of ways and places that singles meet, spliced by length interviews with singles that Lewis says he met at parties, bars and apartment complexes.
If you're looking for lurid accounts of diverse pleasures and perversions, search elsewhere. The spice barely lasts beyond the title, and there are barely enough explicit descriptions to keep the reader awake.
Lewis style is light and easy but cold and impersonal. He completely fails to relate to his reader, and as a result, "Sex Among the Sinuses" is at best slightly entertaining.
The interviews with the singles are interesting but often rambling. They are hard to tell, and they don't tell "the" The singles were all unmarried"; and expressions of pseudomorality among the permissiveness ("I never go to bed with someone I wouldn't want to wake up next
SOME OF LEWIS' ACCOUNTS are worth reading, but the book as a whole is marked by serious flaws. It's hard to believe that Lewis interviewed all of these singles at such length without their realizing that he was an investigative reporter. More likely, these interviews may be the products of a fertile imagination.
It is even harder to understand how Lewis remains so detached from the scene he is in. You might be surprised by the bare singles parties and singles cruises does he give one hint of his own feelings or possible involvement. The book would be very hard to imagine, as showed something of his own personality.
Lewis does succeed in proving his main expressions theatres: "Today, 'single' is not required."
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Indeed, the lifestyle of the generation Lewis portrays is often just as artificial, hypocritical and frustrating as that of previous generations. Behind the glamor and promiscuity of short films, there are other uncertainties that have plagued men for thousands of years.
HE FALLS FAR SHORT, however, of proving his larger but unstated hypothesis—that this generation, by escaping the traditional bonds of marriage and monogamy, has found a solution to the pressures and languags of modern society.
Being a member of the singles generation can best be summarized by borrowing a phrase used by interviewer Louise to describe a simple poem: "It's a mixed blessing."
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Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway, the narrator, is perfect. He is a Celt lost among inferior Ango-Saxons. His narration is written against his struggles, the flamboyant, overblow scenes.
Through Nick's eyes the audience can see how ridiculous the other characters are. He exposes the foolish idealism of Gatsby and the lustre of Tom and reveals their weaknesses.
IN ONE SCENE in which Myrtle is talking to her friends at a party, Nick looks into her psyche and the audience realizes what a pathetic, funny creature she is. Black's performance is sensitive -Myrtle is a performance. Nick's narration brings her to life.
The movie has its flaws. It is too long and it becomes extravagantly boring during the overblown love scenes between Gatsby and Daisy.
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One scene in the movie greatly bothered me. After doing an excellent job of conveying subtle humor, the film takes a violent turn. Gatsby is shown being shot. The event is totally out of context and it only happens when you have hadPerhaps screenwriter Francis Ford Capolla thought he was writing a scene for "The Godfather."
UNFORTUNATELY, some producers think that violence is necessary to sell any film. "The Great Gatsby" is a film of epic dimensions. It needs to make much money just to break even. This possibly explains the violence, but it isn't an excuse.
All of the film's liabilities are the result of the producer's poor decisions; the shooting
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scene, the length and the casting of Red-ford. The film is good, but I can't help feeling that it's a bad movie.
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