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Roberts plays perfect role
as zealot in 'Coca-Cola Kid'
By Tom Mockler
Staff Reporter
"When you no longer see a
Coca-Cola sign, you have passed
the borders of civilization. "
Coca-Cola Company Brochure
"When you have a product with
charisma, you don't have to
explain a goddamn thing. "
Becker in "The Coca-Cola Kid"
Movie Review
" "The Coca-Cola Kid" is a near-bril-liant
film, or rather, it achieves bril
liance. While it is hard to sustain a
feature-length film just watching one
man's zeal for Coca-Cola, it is delight
ful seeing a director do just that for the
first 20 minutes.
Of course, I am a partisan. One of the
most amusing scenes was watching
Becker give a young projectionist the
evil eye for wearing a Pepsi-T-shirt. His
superior tries to explain that it is just
Australian humor.
"That's disloyalty!" Becker exclaims.
Another of Becker's best lines:
"People cannot be called truly free if
they are not free to drink Coca-Cola."
Eric Roberts is excellent as Becker,
a Coca-Cola promoter. He seems to
have the same missionary zeal promot
ing Coke today as the original teetotal
ers who promoted it. Becker, an ex
marine from Atlanta, appears to have
adopted Coke as his new weapon for
promoting the American way of life.
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talented, but it wasn't until this film
that I unambiguously liked his charac
ter. It is a perfect role, and Roberts is
the perfect person for it. You can see
traces of Southern Baptist, marine and
MBA problem-solving mentality.
Becker arrives in Australia before
the Sydney office knows he is coming.
He's a whiz kid, and he informs the
Australian office that his job is to
define the problem, to develop a plan
to solve it, and then to act. His superior
says this is all fine and well, "but I
didn't realize we had a problem."
"That's why I'm here," Becker re
plies. The Aussies are not slouches on the
job, probably no more than their U.S.
counterparts. Unfortunately, trying to
solve a problem that isn't really there
creates problems.
The problem, Becker decides, is in
Anderson Valley, where T. George
McDowell (Bill Kerr) has a monopoly
on the soft drink market. McDowell
does not take kindly to Becker's
attempts to infiltrate his market, but
after a confrontation, they meet a point
of mutual respect.
McDowell's problem is that he is
living in the 1920s, and it is only a
matter of time before the forces of the
ever-more-modern world of Coke start
infiltrating.
Then there is Terri (Greta Scacchi),
who is far more interested in Becker
than in Coca-Cola. Unfortunately,
Becker's interests are the opposite.
Scacchi practically oozes with sexual
ity, though, so eventually Becker sue-
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Technically, another thing that
pleased me was the addition of Shel
don's new Dolby stereo sound system.
Now the only thing missing is a conces
sion stand. I like to have a Coke while
I'm watching a film and this movie in
particular. A few minutes into the film,
I had this terrible desire to leave the
theater and raid a pop machine. This is
inhuman, Dan Ladley!
"Tom Goes To The Bar" is a hilarious
short film preceding "The Coca-Cola
Kid." The bar is a place where a collec
tion of odd characters meet,
Tim Noonan plays the title role, a
poll-taker who gives his perspectives
on life. He quite literally "drops in"
from the ceiling.
There are two "straight men": the
bartender, who seems oblivious to the
madness around him, and a woman who
stops in to use the phone.
In my favorite scene, one character
impresses his friends by saying drama
tically, "In a fair fist-fight, I could take
Walter Mondale," then sinks back into
his seat in self-satisfaction.
"The Coca-Cola Kid" plays Friday
through Sunday at 7 and 9 p.m., with
matinees Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sun
day at 3 and 5 p.m.
Admission is $3.75. .
Setting it Straight
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give its fall concert under the direction
of Priscilla Parson, UNL professor of
strings, at 8 p.m. Sunday at St. Mark's
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Monday, November 11, Epm
Tickets: $12, $10
UNL Students: $8, $3 (TPP)
Tickets on Sale:
to UNL Students-October 21
to others-October 28
Limited Seating
With the support of the Nebraska
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