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“Scream”
Wes Craven's ‘‘Scream” was once a
small horror film that opened with little
fanfare to audiences back in 1996.
Due to strong word-of-mouth by a
newly discovered teenage audience, the
Hick went on to become one of the
biggest blockbusters of the year.
“Scream” was the Pokemon of 1996. If
you hadn’t seen it, you just weren’t cool.
Craven, of “Nightmare on Elm
Street” fame, crafted a film that could
have been just another entry into the
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slasher genre,
but instead
ended up
being surpris
ingly witty and
genuinely
creepy.
One of the
first and best
users of cellu
lar phones in a
movie, “Scream” also combined the old
Scooby-Dooish idea of the masked bad
die with a dynamite cast of characters,
such as Sidney (Neve Campbell), Gale
Weathers (Courtney Cox), Deputy
Dewey (David Arquette) and Randy
(Jamie Kennedy), who all knew the
“rules” of scary movies.
From the beginning 15 minutes to the
frightening, but hilarious, final scene,
Craven used each of his movie’s 111
minutes to keep audience members in
their seats and out of the bathrooms.
Writer Kevin Williamson (“Dawson’s
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“Scream 2”
While the
sequel to the suc
cessful “Scream”
was a slight step
down from the
Friday:
We Review
“Scream 3"
original, “Scream 2” did earn cool
points for discussing the fact that
“sequels suck” at the beginning of the
film.
Following main character Sidney
(Neve Campbell) from high school to
the safer confines of college, the sequel
upped the ante by inserting more pret
ty girls, more laughs and more blood.
Consequently, some of the scares
that the first “Scream” based its entire
success on were lost in a film that ended
up having just too much of everything.
In short, less is definitely more.
While the first film lampooned high
school, “Scream 2”’s best moments
emerged from its ability to make fun of
everything that can be funny in college,
like sorority girls and drunken parties.
Director Craven and writer
Williamson did bolster the film with a
few nail-biting sequences that made the
atergoers jump out of their seats. With
the final “Scream 3,” audiences will like
ly fill the seats again for one last scare.
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"Beholder" Fails to Hold Attention
By Ferris Morrison
Staff Writer
I always love a good action flick.
That’s what I told my roommate as we
braved the icy streets for “Eye of the
Beholder.” Little did I know I was about
to enter a darkened theater to experi-
ence an artsy
psychological
analysis of two
people con
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Beholder” features two well-developed
characters and inventive, surrealistic
cinematography, the film’s poor script
and direction creates a boring story with
no action and a terribly designed finale.
Based on a spy novel by Marc Behm,
“Eye of the Beholder” is the story' of a
British intelligence agent who falls in
love with Joanna Eris (Ashley Judd), a
beautiful killer he is sent to apprehend.
The agent, code-named, “The Eye,”
(Ewan McGregor), is a reclusive, quiet
man haunted by the loss of his wife and
daughter. The Eye refuses to capture
Eris, and instead follows her across the
United States, observing and becoming
obsessed with her from a distance.
Director of Photography Guy
Dufaux created stunning, clever visuals
to complement the film’s themes of
desire and loss. He smoothly transitions
through different points of view, includ
ing The Eye’s digitized view through
high-tech surveillance equipment.
The Eye still talks to the memory of
his daughter, whose ghost follows him
wherever he goes. The line between
reality and fantasy is also skewed as Eris
recalls her tragic childhood. Dufaux
superimposes Eris with a flashback as
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Ashley Judd stars opposite "Phantom Menace" star Ewan McGregor
in "Eye of the Beholder," a story of loss and obsession.
she remembers the day her father dis
appeared. He uses slow fades to show
how each character’s past still dangles in
the present.
But for all of Dufaux’s artistry, the
film’s weak direction destroyed the
interesting thematic elements “Eye of
the Beholder” presented.
Writer and Director Stephan Elliott,
well known for his direction of the com
edy “The Adventures of Priscilla Queen
of the Desert,” took his first stab at a
serious film with minimal success.
Although he carefully planned each
character’s history and motivation,
Klliott forgot to pay attention to the
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actual events in the film, which amount
ed to The Eye watching Eris again,
again and again. While theatergoers
definitely appreciate voyeurism, audi
ences also desire action to carry them
through those slow scenes where The
Eye sits and watches his obsession.
“Eye of the Beholder” finally ends as
Elliott lays on the melodrama a little too
thick and our heroine exits the film with
a flair that only Marlene Dietrich could
appreciate.
Despite its fairly successful attempt to
capture distorted time, space and per
ception, “Eye of the Beholder” fails to
capture the respect of audiences due to
its cliched ending. If you decide to
brave this film for its crafty cinematog
raphy, be prepared for the longest hour
and a half of your life.
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