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Fairy tale' Laccy Man directed in book style
' c!o- Lindsay Ande-sor. once said of Mick
0 the 'hero' of his 1969 film A..., "It doesn't
t as t-,:,ugh Mick can win. The world rallies
' al.viys .vill, and Uings its overwhelming
.i.m to Dear on the man who says 'No'."
! 'cur years later at the beginning of
'.,") s latcs fi'm effoit, O Lucky Man, we see
1 vA Dens-;.!, -jori Mick Trevors and The Girl, all
jm i fjc.j from r.., .itt nj jn a coffee factory
'3 t'v.1 :: iurc.'ss.
-s s though Malcolm r.'.Dowell, who played
-3ita-t revolutionary Trcvers in If..., had
..iw jctttin avvay with th killing of his old
hed imdit ;rs change.) h-s name to Travis and
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the confer r(.ig world.
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v a likely, albeit
it is also an
-1 4 airy tale. It begins
i is "Once upon a
Ofeo ukow
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-of fee salesman for
;; 1 il core of the movie
. uering on those
' I stretched where
' t's were even taken
; "'ned to Anderson
;:c i "- Price.
:' ' chardson, Rachel
'tc . other veterans of
'-.i . -en called a linkage
A '' . has termed this a
;.: . . definite feeling of
t make Mick a
factory, he is later
".. : ir.-.
'd a i (v ic. a secret itomic research plant,
r.s a j-.jii.,c n d nun. loctor's experiments
' ; ro-sn in'; r-t.o a ; f jl uy for a billionaire
He emerges from jail v.'tth a new humanistic view
of mankind, ijt meets with rejection when he tries to
help the dow and-outs on London's East End.
Finally, though, he replies to a "Do You Want To
Be A Star?" ad and is discovered by director
Anderson during a casting audition for If...
McDowell's acting skill i;, revealed superbly in this last
sequence when Anderson first hands h; n a set of
school books and then a rifle.
With only a slight change of expression, McDowell
goes from ir innocent looking school boy to a
determined :int;d revGiut.onary whose face, for a
fleeting moirc-it, is frightening
O Lucky ?1in is, as has been noted by other
critics, the most accurate realisation of the film in the
style of a ovel since Ton- Jones. Alan Price's
informal musical narration, and the sequence titles
and cuts to black (used a bit too much) all serve as
chapter indicators, dividing the film into sect.ons.
The movie-, despite its optimistic sounding title, is
a film of forceful oppositions VicDowell's film roles
have put him , Mo the moL; of the young man ,vho is
constantly bi; ic bettered jn.-j knocked down, but
always rises !o- another go a' it. He is for the most
part naive ard innocent, vol he is learning. He plays
the pieces of life against eacn o:her to get ahead, yet
takes it in str.de when he becomes expendable.
O Lucky Man is a refeshingly new creation in
many of its dejects, yet '.n other ways it is only an
extension, al r.ost a rephrasint; of the ideas of other
films. There hv obvious parallels to Stanley Kubrick's
A Clockwork Urjnje (familial faces from it appear in
0 Lucky Mn) ,:i yi;c!.. g-,s throucfi many of the
same processes ei erience;:1 by I he ultra-violent Alex.
The differea-e ;hcunn, i
the drive, belvnd ri-, ; -f c a
Mick is mercy i i.,'o
miiu me ngrii p d'.c ro r.i-i.
' If... served a timely purpose m 1969 whun the
revolutionary spirit ha? noacd But things have
changed in four years, and 0 Lucky Man fits a newer
feeling by de otct.ng an absence of that reckless spirit
and a slip into what s, if nor conformity, at least a
realistic recognition of what it takes to make it amid
the pitfalls and absurdities of the world.
And agair, ArvJvn.C'n's ,- ;f social satire is not
nearly as r.livtly hrn () a fjm j:e petL,r
Medak's Thn Pi;.-n; Cl-i.
But if O Lucky Man owes r u. l
to Anderson's own previous eft or
documentary styles he perfeced
we must remember that th!.-. is
parable that is attempting v ;
concepts and images on the sc n
It would be a shame if Ami e-o
said O Lucky Man would hi 1 ,
of hum inism that he avidly ; 1
early essays definitely app i i i
but they do not reach a co' c .
of any definite overall resoi r
does get ahead is the film's c
I wish 1 McDowell's m . .. :
picture's end would have
left with the uncertainty of
blinci obedience, confer'
undf "landing of all that has t
C Lucky Man is a film t
for a long time.
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in 'i
ilms and
jding some
ii'ly years),
nour epic
.I'ituoe of
'l when he
The values
i,e of his
1 no film,
s this lack
' e finally
: at the
:'. We are
cf osen
; a sly
'" luered
th.-t Aiex was the force,
' f ' i'.e around him, while
, :n :he wind Try ing to
1 "KTZ"
iT'n.
Actor Malcolm f.'.; 1.
ke, uh, man, Rap House is real, you
kn
Unouncer; T ,t: following p-or;ijm is an exclusive
v rion of K Y ZD r.uJio.
'i.t-unc?rr . . I. lj rc-ji. If:. ,-, here your head is
i 'k i.e.,,-.). it'i v". Gou rjioove. Dig? I'm John
i,r,'j civ "'i polli'iq otones.
'--.ic. r-ia.j', . A.t,.nj.:y...)
V v,c unc-H- Cu jt -lit Rdp House the kids were
; he a p;rv"itf. are hun j i.
" !.. II : ''; '..iifr,-s v.eif .ii. iys telling me not
. .;, ' !N .)i':.. c, ' agreement)
t (I ays U e, uh, you don't,
J 1 ' lot v, -ii ;ri v hot.!, i h I found out, you
' ! ' "ji ;:.f't ci yi. inst all that or
., (!!-' v t, you l"i.vw, humanity is the
" ' ' " .'I ;-:.3't from the lower
'.Music: bam bam bam mah lahf yay
Announcer: What makes you human? The kids
talked about it.
Jane: T.j tx; really human, is, uh, well you've got
to be as hum jn as you can all the lime.
mcK kie:dQQorc
you hove my word
Tom: IV j! .v.;.y, io.' tti not to pet, you
know, but I thifk lettifio is a real natural human
thing,
(Acoustic i.'iiit.ir "N;; j' i f u; art whereby... ')
Announcer: Is God as h.t
Tim: And God got human
human. I see God as kind of i
Tom: Does God feel qui it
old books I could admire C
couldn't like him much.
Bob: Knowing that Gci i
and feels, you know, dovr
easier to like.
Jane: Yeah, you know,
you'd like to share a Coke vi i
Announcer: There's a r v
It's for you. It's called The
postcard to Easy, Why Not
has been real. Really. I'm Jn
(Brass: KYDDeeeee. Cu,
babe cloo ron ronday.J
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Marigolds examines hopelessness of fan
Vdi McPherson
- v:e I ,vas the only p(;rson in the audience at last
''- finesoL ,' light dress lehearsal of The Effect
T.' " j Pays on Mm In The Moon-Marigolds, this
c- j-. fx np play's favDoble impression.
j '.i.".' o - mentally hurled on stage, because
; e"itv fieat:.'i of the Lincoln Community
0 'her.' iis no place tc hide.
i !" i' I' t of the erformance may have
", i the completion of my lonely vigil,
mi,): my 'ascination with this play wai a
1 t j' my e. viionmcnt. It might not have the
' on me in a public p;rforrnance.
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: ...:,: ihe iTi.i:t of this production,
lirst appeared on Broadway in
s'irection (. T'civin Bernhaudt. The
m. .x imuiat .-I an impressive list of
j In. Uran.a Critics' Circle Award,
'-j. t e best cf Broadway play and a
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.alr't: art
mity Fl. house production of
I uy th. nexhaustible John
v funk jnd Wilma Witters,
further '-rhanced by costume
coordinator L ind.j Wessel. Art and . JoAnn Kuhr
constructed and lit the dilapidated vegetable store of
Mrs. Beatrice, the main olvuacter, and her two
daughters.
Jan Healey portrayj Beatrice; with the painful
excellence that the role demands. This broken,
desperate woman lashes out at a world that has stifled
her with a no good and now departed husband, one
daughter "with half a mind" and another daughter
who is "half a test tube."
She has only bur d; ear's and alcohol to ease the
mental and Mhy.ical povu-y her cxistance. Even
her dreams tire taken from her and when she t ries "I
hate the world" at the end, no one is left
unconvinced
Beatrice's dauobter Ruth is played by Carolyn
Hull. Ruth i the extrovert of the two daughters; she
covers her fears and insecurities with makeup, tight
sweaters and exaggerated tares.
Her lights side i foniotton when hopelessness
surrounds her m the form of epilepsy. The character's
personality i, complex and tft.-r,. Jln som. problems
with making it seem re.iiisiio.
Susio Koak takes the role of Tilliu, the
Introverted, intelligent daughter wlose lovo of science
leads her to raise newd marigolds for a class
project.
Tilliu leaves us with one o
as her strength continually
could blame har for giving ui
needed to handle this shy,
Koak has it.
The characters are roundc
Vickeiy and Peter. Nanny, p!,
is an anoient boarder who
Muffley is the master of m.il
arid hei talents on her own el,,
evident.
Janice Vickery, played by
the unlx;ievable competition
fair. Pel i is an enormous wl
the other characters, is a vicii
he ha', no apparent control.
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performances start at 8 2
curtain goes up at 7:30.
Student tickets ate ? I (;
fine production. Do ,
weekend celebrate it in ;i ,)
exist, because of a few peop
tficir love for the arts.
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