Friday, October 11, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
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Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close In "Tha Jaggsd Edge."
' The Jagged Edge ' is smooth;
suspense builds thrilling plot
By Tom Mockler ,
Start Reporter '
"The Jagged Edge," starring Glenn
Close and Jeff Bridges, is a jtrue Hitch-,
cockian thriller. Director Richard Mar
quand has succeeded where". Brian
DePalma went astray.; ' : ':
While Clos,e and - Bridges him in
some of their best performances yet,
the success of this film Can be heavily
Movie Review
credited to writerJoe Eszterhas and to
Marquand. The strength of this film
lies heavily in its excellent courtroom'
drama with tension so thick it becomes
a physical strain to remain in your seat;
The story begins with the grisly
murder of a wealthy newspaper heiress
who is, the fictional equivalent of the
great grandaughter.to William Ran-'
dolph Hearst. Her husband, Jack For-
Cards and Letters
Sting creates
for himself,
not the public
B 1 am interested in knowing how
Chris McCubbin came to the conclu
sion that Sting has "an attitude prob
lem." First, this remark adds nothing to
McCubbin's review of "The Dream of
the Blue Turtles," (Daily Nebraskan,
Sept. 30).
Could a haughty and proud man be
concerned with our people's welfare, as
i is expressed in the lyrics of almost
every song on the album?
Secondly, cutting down Sting's pre
vious career as a musician and actor
hardly makes a good transition into the
appraisal of the album itself. I was
annoyed when McCubbin referred to
the instrumental "The Dream of the
Blue Turtles" as unnecessary. What
j McCubbin fails to realize is that Sting
m accomplished artist who no longer
nas to please the public. He isn't out to
make money on this album. It was a
creative risk. Has the original right and
duty of every musician to create for the
sake of pleasing himself disappeared?
More importantly. I fear, we will
i"ve to listen to MrCiihhin mftkft netfa-
we jests toward other respectable art
sjste for no significant reason. I suggest
piat the next time you anxiously burst
f .u pnni you assuredly give your read-
"mecuve, good journalism.
Laurie Nelson
liberal arts
sophomore
. rester (Bridges), is the immediate sus
pect. For good reason: He inherits her
. entire fortune. Bridges seems innocent,
and we want him to be innocent, but
something, just .doesn't seem quite
right. : --: ''';'" :
'! : . Is Bridges, giving a slightly lacklus-:
tet performance,, or is the. character .
acting? This question bothers you;
throughout the entire film, and, as a
result, the suspense continues to build
throughout
But, of course, Forrester, who also is
editor of his wife's paper, has money, so
he gets his corporate attorneys to
represent him. Only one person in the
firm has a background in criminal law
-- Teddy Barnes (Close). Her back
ground isn't squeaky clean either. A
few years back, she was Assistant Dis
trict Attorney under Thomas Krasny
(Peter Coyote), and something very ,
disturbing made her give it all up to
become a corporate lawyer.
She decides to defend Forrester
anyway, which sets her up in direct
opposition to Krasny. It also happens
that Krasny and Forrester had been
considered serious contenders for an
upcoming senate race.
The plot is brilliantly woven but suf
ficiently intricate as to make it point
less to describe further, not to mention
destroying critical suspense.
The movie has a lot of things going
for it.
Coyote shines as D. A. Krasny. He
bears a resemblance to Tom Conti, and
his character is somewhat of an enigma.
Indeed, the entire film leaves good and
bad ambiguous, truth and deceit un
certain. Is Krasny . merely a mean
spirited, . ambitious district attorney,
and Forrester merely his victim? Oris
Forrester a cold-blooded murderer but.
art excellent actor and manipulator?
;. Indeed, it does seem rather far
fetched. ; ' ; ; ', v
Glenn Close is more straightforward
as the heroine. She wants truth and
justice to be served, but she, too, is
human. When she becomes ' romanti
cally involved with Forrester, is he act
ing? As the evidence indicating he is
innocent mounts, he seems more guilty
than before. But the heroine does her
job a little too well: By the gripping
final sequence, two, possibly three,
men could be out to kill her.
Despite the film's successes, I can
only give it a 3.75 GPA rating. Something
is missing, although I'm not precisely
sure what. Perhaps the romance seems
a bit too calculated. Maybe it's some
thing about Close. After her brilliant
performance as Garp's eccentric mother
in "The World According to Garp," her
"normal" characters come across as
somewhat lackluster. Maybe she just
doesn't have enough spark. Maybe she's
in too many movies. She also is starring
in "Maxie," which, like this film, is
shot in San Francisco.
Even if familiarity doesn't always
breed contempt, it can leave you with
the blahs. Could someone like Kat
hleen Turner have made the differ
ence? We'll never know.
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