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Will history judge the hero of Richard Schickel's Boswellian tome as "ironic" and "postmodern"?
The cinematography is alternately praised as stunning and condemned as boring, but the response to the story line is unanimous: It's a "liberal soap opera" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that consists of a "self-congratulatory anti-prejudice message, fleshed out with painstaking topographic detail" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). A few critics stand up for the film, calling it a "thoughtful, evocative thriller" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Find out more about Hawke here.)
Some love the "darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex" plotting (Richard Schickel, Time ); others call the film "Masterpiece Theater for the MTV generation," riddled with glaring historical inaccuracies (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). Two things draw praise from all: 1) The spectacular art direction; 2) Cate Blanchett's performance as a feminist Virgin Queen.
Leone, Schickel writes, developed a style that alternated cunningly between extreme wide shots and extreme close-ups partly in an effort to monumentalize Eastwood's face; the director's mise en scène became "a landscape of masks."
The one shocker in the book is the revelation of Eisner's heart-and-soul belief that those who criticize Disney simply don't understand it and that "the company's good is unquestionably, inextricably intertwined with the larger social good" (Richard Schickel, the Los Angeles Times ). (For the biography of another "awkward, toothy, curious, and good-spirited Everyman" at Disney, read Goofy's official bio.
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