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- From: otran@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Master Sun Tzu )
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- Subject: Re: Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 04:09:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.144420.28199@scott.skidmore.edu> dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter) writes:
- >Agreed- visually stunning and thought -provoking.
- >
- >Anthony Hopkins provided much-needed campy comic releif.
-
- - comic relief that should not have been in the film! I expected
- more from Coppola, but times are changing. Movies which I believe
- should be dramatic, I mean without any comic relief, are being
- transformed into pseudo-comic/dramatic or the like. Such scenes
- ruin a 'good' movie; take The Godfather for example, what would it
- be like if any of the main characters said a 'hoaky' or 'cheesy'
- line. It just wouldn't go; it's just senseless. If a movie is
- surpose to be a comedy, then that's fine, but otherwise leave the
- wise cracks out of it. You just can't try to satisfy everyone,
- which is what it seems movie makers are trying to do. Aside from
- this and the movie's overall lack of organization, it was an ok
- movie saved by its visual effects. Just my 2 cents.
-
- Oai Tran
-
- By the way, what did you do when Arnold said "I let him go" when
- he dropped a guy he was holding from a cliff or when he said
- "Stick around" after he pinned some guy to a tree with a thrown
- dagger?
-
- a> you cracked up or
- b> you said, 'give me a break!'
-
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- Master Sun Tzu said:
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- Those who win every battle are not really
- skillful -- those who render others' armies
- helpless without fighting are the best of all.
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