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Wednesday, December 1, 1971
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"Play Misty For Me," starring' and
directed by Clint Eastwood, is a horror
movie unintelligently conceived and
unintelligently directed.
The bare plot is as follows: David
(Clint), up-and-coming DJ in sunny
California, is in love with a nice-girl Toby
(Donna Mills). Evelyn (Jessica Walters), a
psychotic, falls in love with David after a
brief affair and pursues him almost unto
death, but at the crucial moment crashes
through a window, over a cliff and into a
watery grave below.
A horror film can succeed by various
means, the most effective of which is a
gradual and continuous increase of
suspense. The audience, as well as the
characters, become wholly involved in
their fear, feeling a sense of helplessness
in the presence of evil. The mounting
tension is achieved not by isolated scenes
of violence, but by a tightening of the
web that surrounds the characters, so that
their nerves, and those of the viewer,
become so taut, so frayed, that the least
hint of a shadow can evoke a truly
frightened scream.
"Misty," unfortunately, engenders no
such fear. Its horror effects depend
entirely on close-ups of Evelyn's "mad"
face, flashes of a gigantic knife, and a
considerable amount of blood and havoc.
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The evil force in a horror film may be
either natural, as in "The Birds," or
human, as in "Psycho." In either case,
however, the viewer must be able to
identify with the characters in order to be
frightened. The schizophrenic killer in
"Psycho" preserves a mien so normal that
one is never quite sure he is the murderer.
Thus when the detective and the sister of
the victim find it hard to suspect him, we
sympathize, because we too can hardly
believe in his guilt. In ' Misty," on the
other hand, there is no doubt in our
minds that Evelyn is mad. Jessica Walters
laugh is unambiguously maniacal, her
delusive love for David desperate and
unnatural. We notice it ten minutes into
the movie; why in hell doesn't he?
Only after Evelyr. destroys his
apartment and nearly kills his cleaning
lady does David realize she is unstable.
Until then he is unexplicably, and
inexcusably, obtuse. When she barges into
his apartment in the middle of the night,
he drives her home. When she interrupts
an important business lunch, he hurls her
into a cab. Terribly concerned about his
girl friend, he doesn't suggest that she
move closer to town: he merely worries.
After stepping over the investigating
sergeant's corpse on his way to the final
confrontation, he walks straight into the
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bedroom and bends over Toby, bour.d
and gagged on the bed. Obviously the
madwoman is standing behind him,
poised to kill, but he hasn't bothered to
pick up a lamp, or blunt object on his
way in. That wnuld be too easy.
Eastwood recognizes that shock
effects lose effect when repeated too
often, so he interrupts the mad scenes
frequently. They are replaced by equally
stock, equally banal sequences. The true
lovers walk along the beach, to the
background of "The First Time, Ever I
Saw Your Face" - what used to be a
lovely song. Conforming their actions to
the accompanying words, they gaze into
each others faces in stanza one, They kiss
in stanza two. They make love in stanza
three. A bit inconsistently, they are
wearing warm windbreakers and woolen
socks at the beginning of the song, but by
the end are standing nude in a woodland
pond.
Lyrical beauty is the idea here, of
course, and one shouldn't quibble over
minor discrepancies. When they make
love the camera tends to focus lovingly
on their heads and shoulders, and again
on their thighs, calves and feet, averting
its eyes from that naughty middle
section. Actually, we know that they've
made love only because Toby reaches
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orgasm.
The camerawork, in fact, plays tricks
as boring as those of the plot. The ocean
is shot vertically to form a wall behind
the lovers as they trip gaily home. They
are shot in warm golden light, while
Evelyn gets a cold blue lens. Their natural
habitat is flowery meadows or
driftwood-strewn coast; Evelyn is posed
against phone booths, automobiles, bars
(catch Toby setting foot in a bar!). The
ocean, in an extremely pathetic fallacy,
becomes turbulent in destructive scenes,
calm in love scenes - crosscutting at its
worst.
"Play Misty For Me" is ineffectually
frightening, and offensively dishonest.
Having explained to Evelyn before he
slept with her that their relationship is a
one-night-stand, David does not feel it
incumbent upon him to discover who she
is or where she is from. He only wants to
live happily ever after with Toby (in itself
incomprehensible), and he'll be damned if
he lets anything interfere with that
dream. Surely there are more effective,
not to say compassionate, ways of coping
with a maniac than cursing and trying to
pretend she doesn't exist. Evelyn's
violence does not engender sympathy for
David it merely emphasizes his
stupidity and callousness.
by Kathy Koch
Fez rare Writer
Not many contemporary rock groups
got the:r beginnings as drum and sax
players for such "funky" 1950 bands as
"Dean Beard and the Crew cats " Indeed,
most rock musicians haven't been around
that long.
But J:m Seas and Dash Crofts. ho
will be appearing Dec. 0 at $ p.m. m
Memorial Hall, had just such beginnings.
After a stint with Dean Beard, the two
Texas youths stuck together for years as
studio and backup musicians for various
bands. Striking out on their own in H6",
they have developed an oriental-flavored
style, implementing the fiddle,
saxophone, mandolin, and guitar to
create a sound similar to what the New
York Times calls a "choir of gnomes."
The duo are performing as a part of
the Carolina Union's Memorial Hall
Series. Free tickets are available at the
Union Information Desk with student
I D.'s.
Seals and Crofts combine varied
talents. Seals is not only a champion
fiddle player but is also talented on the
guitar, bass drums, harmonica, flute,
piano and saxophone.
Crofts plays the guitar, piano, organ
bass, trumpet and mandolin.
Their repertory is equally varied,
consisting of semi-re!:gious lyncal themes,
bluegrass. and so-.r with oriental
textures.
The New York Times describes their
talents as being -fir beyond the
imagination and capability of most
popular musicians. An extraordinary
duet, really, one that seems finally to be
TceiviT.2 p-t; attention."
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pounds of chili, and several gallons of
slaw, mustard, and "all the trimmings"
have been prepared for Thursday
afternoon's campus-wide hot dog roast.
Sponsored by the Carolina Union
Social Committee to celebrate the
season's first basketball game, the hot
dogs will be offered for a dime each along
with jazz music at 5 p.m. in the Pit. In
case of rain, the roast will be held m the
Tin Can.
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get good, cheap hot dogs." said Union
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