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Aidsui Qainn and Daiyl Hannah in Reckless: Not up there with Vie Wild Ones.
Another teenager gets 'Reckless'
By Steve Absrictes
Ever since James Dean gracefully whined and
moped his way through Rebel Without A Cause,
Hollywood has consistently produced films about
troubled youth or youth in rebellion or both.
In the late '50s and early '60s Marlon Brando and
Warren Beatty picked up where Dean left off, sock
ing it to the establishment in films like The Wild
Ones and Splendor In The Grass. Later on, Dustin
Corns beck, Ji.r.rny Dccn
' Rckl. directed by James Foley; screenplay by Chris Cpiumryis-produced
by Edgar Scherick and Scott Rudn for mum turns. Hated H. At tne
Douglas 3. 13th and P streets.
Johny Rourke A,dan 0uinn
Tracey Prescott Daryl Hannah
John Rourke. Sr Kenneth McMillan
Phil Barton Clift OeYoung
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, . . . , . Review
Hoffman decided that "plastics" was not the answer
in The Graduate. That was followed by Easy Rider,
one of the quintessential films on the '60s which was
released one year later. Films about teen alienation
since then have been less memorable, but there still
seems to be trouble out in suburbia.
Reckless, a new film by John Foley, will not go
down in history alongside the films mentioned pre
viously. Reckless is about anti-social teen behavior,
but in no way does it live up to the daring potential
that its title suggests.
The film's protagonist is Johnny Rourke (Aidan
Quinn), a rather discontent young man from the
wrong side of town. He is a loner with a leather
jacket and a motorcycle.
On the way to football practice one day (that's .
right, he is also the star of his high school football
team), he spies Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah)
working out on the uneven parallel bars. He decides
he wants to leave the dreary and depressing steel
town, and he is bound and determined to take Tra
cey with him.
One of the problems with this film lies in the fact
that neither the story nor its characters are very
believable. The film tries to mix dirt and grit realism
with Hollywood gush and ends up doing neither. The
high school kids drink, swear and say insipid things.
I'm the first to admit that high school was bad, but it
was never this bad.
Actually, it is not clear whether the banality of the
characters is intentional. The screenplay is ulti
mately at fault. Many of the lines are completely
meaningless. There are three or four good lines in
the film and one or two good scenes, and they all
belong to Rourke.
In perhaps the best scene of the movie, Rourke
steals the blonde away from .her straight-laced,
future model citizen boyfriend at a school dance for
one wild romp on the dance floor. Rourke twists and
jerks his body with lightning-quick movements and
looks something like a mongoose on speed. But the
good moments are too few and far between. Quinn is
a fine actor, and it has been suggested in other
publications that he is the next big heart-throb. I
think he looks like Jerry Reed.
As the main character of the film, Johnny Rourke
does nothing to gain our respect. All we see him do
at the beginning of the film is knock an empty can of
beer offa precarious overlook with the skidding rear
tire of his motorcycle and jaunt out of a ladies res
troom, zipping up his fly.
From then on the plot gets more implausible with
"every twist, and consequently the film itselfbecomes
meaningless. Rourke is not admirably cool, nor is he
reckless. He is an uptight jerk who is sexually frus
trated and has some unseen ax to grind. He is victim
ized by the faults of the people around him, but he is
not smart enough to figure a way around all of the
inconveniences. Who cares? He is a wimp who will
say one thing then do another. And besides, who
goes to a scenic overlook with just one beer?
Reckless is a dark, grim, claustrophobic movie.
The film is completely void of creative art rather,
it is drab reality, but it has nothing to say. And in the
drab reality, but it has nothing to say. And in the
end, Rourke is a rebel without a reason.
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BY
CHRISTY Z TEWS
7.00 pm February. 16, 1934
Nebraska Union
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Continued from Pe2 11
A well-meaning individual asked me
to classify this unique album. Art rock
simply wont do. Copcland's use of
rhythm is too prominent and engaging
for that rather generic category
perhaps art rock with reggae over
tones comes closer. Still, there are
those brass and bass parts that h ark
en back to a jazz or a rhythm and blues
era. This album steps beyond classifi
cation, it encompasses too many genres. '
Anyone who doubted The Police's
musical ability would only have to
listen to this work or Andy Summers'
(with Robert Fripp) album to realize
that apart from being fine pop per
formers, they also are talented, innov
ative and immaglnative artists. If The
Police never made another album, the
knowledthoi its membcrs'solo careers
could be as original and artistic as this
album would make their absence much
easier to bear.
CHRISTY Z. TEWS
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on the complete program your doctor prescribes. Every day,
no matter how you feel.
Don't follow just one part of your treatment and not the rest. If your
trcatment program is pills, weight control and less salt, do it all and
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