>thing that they don't know. (The Crying Game was okay, I thought, with some >wonderful work by Stephen Rea and the other performers, though I had trouble >believing a hardened IRA solider would behave the way he did when the job went >wrong.) The market manipulation is so self-evident, but North America seems to >be having a whale of a time spending their money to play the Crying Game. > Y'know, it's strange. I expected the Big Twist, even though I saw the film without hearing a single word about it (the film, that is, not just the twist), but what really surprised me was Whittaker's character's death. Where I saw it (Phoenix), he was promoted as the main star. Killing him off like that was like HItchcock killing Janet Leigh in the first 30 minutes of PSYCHO. I didn't know around Miramax's promotion of the Twist, but I'm not surprised. What other hook would there be? It does, however, cheapen somewhat the film's gender bending--makes it into more of a gimmick than a fundamental challenge to gender stereotyping. ---------- No matter where you go, there you are. --Buckaroo Banzai ---------- | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |