BE 's Satire of Ernie: Kyrgyz @ LC & The Fast and the Furious at the Sony

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Beatrice's "bad ear", a small flaw in the otherwise brilliant language ....

They all want to be victims, but Money has no Moral Opinions

Joe’s white-shoe law partner disdains his grubby deals, even as he
happily shares the profits. Leo’s furious contempt seems out of all
proportion to his brother’s crimes (he even compares Joe to Cain.) And
Doris (Beatrice Pearson), a sweet, clean-cut young woman who works for
Leo, keeps calling Joe an evil man, while practically begging him to
seduce her. All these people find it easy to project their own
corruption onto Joe, to blame him for tempting them to stray, because
he is honest about his own greed and cynicism. They want to be forced
to sin, so they can believe they are victims rather than perpetrators.
Joe himself is actively and willingly corrupted by Tucker (Roy
Roberts), boasting to Doris that “I wasn’t strong enough to resist
corruption, but I was strong enough to fight for a piece of it.”

Beatrice Pearson, a newcomer whose career went nowhere after Force of
Evil, is the only weak link in the cast, though her part would be hard
for anyone to play convincingly. She is the only innocent,
inexperienced character on screen, yet she talks in the same
hyper-articulate style as the others, coming off as awkwardly stagy.
Her part should have been written in different language, to
demonstrate her distance from the world around her. With her calf
eyes, little-girl voice and prim demeanor, she is never very plausible
as a girl from the slums. (Think by contrast of Eva Marie Saint in On
the Waterfront, who conveys both the purity of a virginal Catholic
schoolgirl and the fierce spirit bred by a hard, impoverished life.)

http://chiseler.org/post/72774898638/money-has-no-moral-opinions-force-of-evil

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 4:14 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Polonsky's smart film outlined the contours of a world saturated by
> corruption. The rackets are so widespread that ending them may entail
> total annihilation. Which is precisely the message of “Force of
> Evil”'s assistant director Robert Aldrich's 1955 campy directorial
> conclusion to a decade of noir, “Kiss Me Deadly.”
>
> https://www.solidarity-us.org/node/620
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:00 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Force of Evil. see Ira Wolfert and J Edgar Hoover goes to the Movies.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
>> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>> Nice catch!
>>>
>>> And, yes, I wish the Marx Brothers (and Mozart) aficionados would chime in
>>> wrt that "obscure, in fact never-distributed Marx Brothers version of /Don
>>> Giovanni/, with Groucho in the title role." (BE, 418)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> But then we
>>>> are told that he's not at LC, but at the Sony Multiplex catching a cop
>>>> movie instead. The Fast and the Furious.
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