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-MATT MCCLASKY, DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
CAPTAIN RIBMAN in Can't See The Forest For The Sleaze
by Sprengelmeyer & Davis
'Feathers' 'narratively incoherent'
By Ben Nuckols
The Associated Press
Three of Harry's friends, who have a more plausible sense of duty, send him white feathers as a
Thus Lt. Harry Faversham (Heath Ledger) makes no political objection to the British colonial mission when his regiment is sent to war. He's just afraid of combat and wants to stay home and marry his fiancée, Ethne Eustace (Kate Hudson).
The Four Feathers is a war epic for 15-year-old girls, the dunderheaded saga of a dreamboat who loses his courage and his girl, fights to win them back, succeeds and, unfazed by it all, goes back to being a dreamboat again.
The details — that he's an English soldier, it's 1875 and he goes to the Sudan to assist in Her Majesty's global effort to civilize the heathens — matter not at all. All that matters is that the psychology makes sense to the American teenagers to whom this pointedly PG-13 film is designed to appeal.
symbol of his cowardice, with Ethne contributing a fourth.
Through it all, these upper-crust Brits speak and behave like contemporary American children.
The friends go to war, led by Lt Jack Durrance (Wes Bentley), who declines to send Harry a feather but has no reservations about stealing his bird. The perpetual third wheel to Harry and Ethne, Jack senses his opening and begins writing her letters detailing his heroic exploits.
Shamed by the feathers, Harry journeys to the Sudan on his own, and then, amazingly, The Four Feathers gets worse, becoming not only politically and culturally ignorant but racially backward as well. Harry is sprawled in the desert, near death, when, right on cue, along comes the terrific West African actor Djimon Hounsou.
Like Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance and Don Cheadle in The Family Man — roles that prompted a much-needed tongue-lashing by Spike Lee — Hounsou plays an angelic black man who
exists solely to make things easier for the white hero. For no reason, he rescues Harry and — quickly, implausibly — helps him infiltrate a band of Sudanese rebels to get close to his old regiment.
By the time Kapur lays bare the absurdity of British combat tactics in a big central battle sequence, The Four Feathers is already flailing in the wind; no amount of spectacle can save it. Narratively and visually incoherent, it lurches forward without finding time to explain the Sudanese position or even to detail where in the Sudan they're fighting and why.
If The Four Feathers had a central argument, it would go something like this: Sure, the British had no business being there, but they were so valiant and so darn cute!
The Four Feathers, a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for intense battle sequences, disturbing images, violence and some sensuality. Running time: 135 minutes. One star out of four.
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16 Singer Dinah
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51 Cutting remark
53 Actress Perlmar
54 Razorbacks' school
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68 Pennsylvania port
69 Dispose of money
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5 Forefather
6 Bovine comment
7 NBA players
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10 St. __ of Avila
11 Lug
12 Author Murdoch
13 Lincoln coin
14 Fond du __, WI
15 Ewe's cry
16 Wretched hut
17 Shut out
18 Select group
19 Abundant flow
20 Edgar Allan Poe's bird
22 Giraffe relative
23 Showed again
24 Fetch
27 Vacation ship
40 Purified
41 Sweater materia
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48 Woolf novel, "___ Dalloway"
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52 Foundation
54 Rudiments
55 Harvest
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57 Wise
58 Matador's toe
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