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6The Daily Tar Hee! Thursday, November 14. 1985 ike huW&-eye m u surge f By ALEXANDRA MANM Staff Writer Gene Hackman got lucky. After a break from any screen activity at all, he finally got a role that has just about everything in a movie with just about everything. In Target, Hackman plays Walter Lloyd, a husband, a father, an ex C.I.A. agent and, as the title indi cates, a target. He and his son Chris (Matt Dillon) go to Europe, where most of the story takes place. They are in search of Walter's wife Donna (Gayle Hunnicutt), who was appar ently kidnapped a couple of days after arriving in Germany for her vacation. Walter, having left his spy days behind him, is not thrilled with the prospect of going anywhere near the European continent. But the people who kidnapped his wife know they can get him there by taking what is most valuable to him. Thus, the relatively normal life of this family from Dallas, Texas, is rudely interrupted by the crisis. Hackman fits every part of this multi-faceted role perfectly. He is the husband in love with his wife, the father who wants to take his son fishing to get to know him better and, as we discover, an expert in his former profession. Dillon plays Walter's son in his all-too familiar way, but he has grown up considerably, and, in this particular film, it works. He is independent, tough and cocky, as he has been in all his films, but that attitude is necessary for this role. He is a college dropout with only vague plans for going back; he repairs stock cars for a living; and it takes something as serious as his mother's disappearance to bring him closer to cinema his father. While the acting is superb, it is the basic story by Leonard Stern that is truly flawless. It is fast-paced, yet not confusing, with just the right number of characters to keep things interesting. The focus is always where it should be on Lloyd and his son. The only fault that can be found in Target is its predictable and slightly corny ending. Most of the cinematography was done where it should have been in Europe. The film does not fudge on this issue. When the characters are in Dallas, the audience sees Dallas, and the same is true for France and Germany. Just watching Dillon doing stunts in a small red Peugeot in France is entertaining in itself. Arthur Penn's direction also leaves little to be desired. Of course, he already has good people and a good screenplay to work with. There are scenes in the film, especially between Hackman and Dillon, which make moviegoing a worth while venture. Perm takes what is a pretty shallow father-son relation ship at the outset of the film and turns it into an undeniably close one by the end. In almost all respects, Target can receive few complaints, except for quibbles from those filmgoers who seek romance and sex on screen, because there is little of that. But what the film offers to make up for that loss makes it an Irresistible way to spend two hours. By DEANNA RUDDOCK Staff Writer , . Ingmar Bergman's Nora is a play with real drive that rockets to the end, director Kenneth Russell said of this weekend's UNC Lab Theatre produc tion. If the excitement in his voice is any indication of what is to come, the play's opening Sunday is sure to be sensational. Bergman's Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, tells the story of a woman who forges her father's signature in order to get money to save her sick husband and the problems she encounters as a result of this act. The play deals with the issues of marriage, morality, and one's per sonal duty to discover who heshe really is. Russell, a senior from Albemarle who is graduating in December, said he had wanted to do A Doll's House for a long time and was amazed at the similarities between this adaptation and the original. Bergman changed the three-act play into 15 short scenes and cut out all of the extra characters, he said. "Ibsen felt like he has to justify every time someone was off stage," said Russell. "Bergman stripped away all the fat, and all of these justifications and transitions are gone." Mike Wilson, who plays Dr. Rank in the play, said that these changes made the play more contemporary and pushed the emotional impact of the play. "The play is made more clear and lucid, and it strikes out more, effec tively," he said. In this adaptation, Nora is on stage throughout the entire play. People appear, and things happen, Russell said. "The play is about people reacting to each other. All of the characters need something from each other." Jennifer Deer Johnson, a senior from Atlanta, Ga., who plays Nora, said that being on stage during the entire play was draining, but that she did not get tired while performing. "The end comes PREPARE FOR: CDUCATtOTJAL carrei ltd. 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She sees Nora as a stronger character and will portray her as such, Johnson said. "It would be false to play out only my preconceptions when this is what the script says to me," she said. Some have said that A Doll's House was outdated because the issues facing women in the play were no longer relevant, Russell said. "This play is not about women's rights," he said. "It is about human rights. It's about selfhood, and that doesnA date." ... According to Russell, he and the actors have not changed the expecta tions of the play or tried to twist or distort the text to portray something new. "We are not shattering sterotypes for the sake of it," he said. "This is what the script says to us." Patrick Padgett, a senior from Arden, N.C., who plays Nora's husband Tor vald Helmer, said that his character has changed less than others in this adap tation. "Torvald is the best represen tation of a man in Victorian times," he said. 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