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Thursday, March 29, 1984 The Pendulum Arts Page 5 Realistic scenes in ^Against All Odds’ arrouses audiences By Felicia Fogleman Arts Editor You can bet that the title Against All Odds best de scribes the theme of this movie. And if you saw the movie Scar- face, then you should see re- semblence between the two movies. Directed by TaylorHackford, the film gets your blood circu lating because of its realistic scenes like that of Scarface. For example, when the blood gushes from the heart area of one man's body as you watch this victim being pierced by a bullet from Jessica’s (Rachel Ward) gun, there is nothing that looks more realistic. The trick couldn’t have been pulled with a blood capsule like wrestlers use to arouse their audience. This victim’s hands were no where near his body to perform this cheap trick by popping the capsule.lt looks too real to be fake. Then there is the scene in the attorney’s office where a drunk employee of the firm attaches a police officer’s hand to a door with a long pointed letter open er. When the camera shows this happening within a foot away from the officers hand, your eyes will deceive you, because this doesn’t look fake. The movie has another side of realness; the settings. As parts of the movie take place in different areas of Mexico, the scene^ is beautiful as well as historical. The mixture of aqua and royal blue colors make up the calm waters that lay on the white sands. And you even get a glimpse of the colorful under water world. Then there is the many pyra mids and sphinxs with rock sculptures of god-like faces that stand aged on the isolated land. One of these pyramids Bro gan (Jeff Bridges) calls the sweathouse that works like a steamroom as long as Brogan has the companionship of Jes sica to help produce the steam. Movie Review But the steam evaporates when a gun enters the picture. With what you’ve read so far, it’s probably hard for you to be lieve that blood and settings are centered around Brogan’s plan to get his money back for being cheated out of playing professional football for the Los Angeles Outlaws. But the Outlaws owner Grace Wyler and her husband Ben Caxton are manipulating the team. But Wyler doesn’t know everything her husband is up to. Everyone works for Caxton. High school student moonhghts as hooker By Robin Agnew Staff Writer Angel is the story of a prissy 15-year-old high school honor student during the day who moonlights as a hooker at night. Angel, her street name and Molly her birth name, is played by 20-year-old actress. Donna Wilkes. Wilkes has survived alcoholism, drug addiction and shark attacks—on the street that is. She specializes in problem adolescent roles. And now she is the star of Angel. In Wilkes last acting job, on Days of Our Lives, she played Pamela Prentiss, a teenage drug addict who overdosed two or three times, was a runaway and kidnapped a baby. She also played a role in the teen film Almost Summer, Jaws II and two other movies before Angel. The film aims to titilate the liigh school crowd with such things as naked girls in the locker room. But what the film is trying to say is that sex is I fbeap and dirty for middle- ®Sed, married, over weight men who salivate over young Sirls who they hire for a few "'inutes of cheap thrills and Qesires. The men treat the girls with contempt. The problems of both the prostitute and -a psychotic kil ler are blamed on their pa rents. Molly’s father ran off when she was six and her mother when she was 12. Thus, Movie Review Molly transformed into Angel for the night, and sent herself on the street to pay for her pri vate school tuition. The psychopath was sexually abused by his mother. He now gets sexual release from murdering and raping women (in that order) and then muti lating them with his switch blade. There is a bit of humor in the nick. The kindest characters are a transvestite and a foul- mouthed cartoon lesbian. Luxury Two-Bedroom Townhouses Bath-and-a-half, modern kitchen with disposal, washer/dryer connection. Air conditioning, carpeting, drapes, pool. Cable television available Rents from $292. Everyone bids on the Out laws to make money for them selves and Caxton. And every one is willing to kill because of Caxton especially his wife’s daughter Jessica. But Brogan falls in love with Jessica thanks to a mission her lover Jake Wise who has paid him ten-thousand dollars to find her for him as she had run from him and her mother. Bro gan did this because he needed the money since he was kicked off the team, but he never in tended to fall in love with the woman himself. All Brogan wants is the money he’s earned for playing football, to play again, and to have Jessica as his lover. Well, he gets one out of these three. Football, blood and palm trees don’t seem to mix together too well to plot the story, at times it’s hard to keep track of the scenes taking place but it’s quite interesting and eye catching. But it could have had a better ending. Getting back to Scar/ace—it has bloody scenes that relate to big money that all the people are out to get. The language is not quite so bad in Against All Odds, and the dealing isn’t over cocaine but over the odds of a football team, winning or losing. But for Brogan, his schemes are definitely against all odds. It does not get a 10 rating, but the movie deserves at least a 7. The transvestite poses as a “mother” or “father” figure for Angel. The punk-rock lesbian is Angel’s apartment landlord who also represents a “father- mother” figure. The movie has a very high climatic ending when Angel takes it upon herself to kill the psychopath that has murdered 1 her friends and mutilated her apartment. The movie is a very realistic story of prostitutes, the vice squad and high school life. There is no drugs or alcohol in this movie. Only a few nude scenes and raw language with vulgar conversations. But still, the movie was ex cellent in its context and real ism to life. Forged by a god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a King. EXCALIBUR OKon P'CTu«f5 fiftisr TECHNICOLOR' Tnru WARNEf) BROS O * *»•''*' Co—o*''i . >911 OmON riCruHtJ COM'tSr ll R.ShTS DfSCKVCO EXCALIBUR Friday, March 30”* Whitley Auditorium 8:00 P.M. Admission M.OO .Model Open Mondav-Friday 10-6: Saturday. lO-o 321-C Atwood Drive 226-4202
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