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Speaking as someone who has made an extensive study of the live-action Disney films of the 1960s-1970s I can say with some authority that this is truly one of the worst films ever released by Disney; almost unwatchable.
( 52 years later - better late than never - smiling) I enjoyed the director's excellent mix of character complexities, the early 1950s icons of cars, dress, and innocent patriotism, the references to post-traumatic syndrome of World War II G.I.'s, and small town reluctance in cooperating with federal authority.
Otto, the "leader of the gang" smarts of to everyone in authority and almost never gets punished.
An authority figure who sees an epidemic on the horizon, money hungry investors not wanting the town to be in an uproar, heroics, and a tightly packaged ending that tells the viewer that everything is going to be okay.
He does have enough authority to clean up the town and rid Torpedo of some of the worst law breakers in the Old West.
All of the characters in this film have an imperviousness to the objections related to a perceived totalitarianism brought on in the sixties, not just because the radical aspect of the decade has yet to be, but also, because locking horns with the authority figures is not second nature to them ...(Even Big John Milner)...
He takes social norms like the social formalities, sexual taboos, religious authority, and the western justice system and turns them upside-down, just to see what happens.
There are hardly any signs of Dolf struggling with the authority of the Priest Anselmus (yet another crucial thing in the original story).
The story was so predictable and instead of develop the father-daughter concept the crew choose to develop the dull and typical authority father - rebel teen thing.
Simba was carefree, funny, spirited, gentle and was changed into a mean and authority dictator who does not know anything about love.
We have: 1) The authority: a mean and not-so-cold-hearted school principal, who pretends to be to tough to care but in the end proves that deep down she has feelings and all.
There wouldn't have to be rules to protect the innocent if the ability to go power mad and abuse the authority given them didn't happen on a regular basis.
He begins his investigation but just as he is getting close to the truth, he is transferred to Paris by higher authority.
Okay, Kirsten Dunst is great and one of the best aspiring actresses today; Randy Quaid made it nearly tolerable; but I can't get over the fact that this was really another typical American attempt to turn people against the system and gain distrust and dispise for authority.
It contains all the classic elements: a no-compromise anti-hero (Russell), a cast of misfit cohorts who work both for and against his goals (Borgnine, Barbeau, Stanton), an enemy with real dimensions (Hayes), a fantastic and depressingly realistic setting (Manhattan turned into a prison), and an authority we can both respect (van Cleef) and despise (Pleasance).
What you do get is absolutely true-to-form with the rest of the film: Snake walks away after successfully completing his mission (and saving his own skin) and yet can still screw the authority and the society that put him in the situation to begin with...and you find yourself grinning in approval.
There are no real people in "On the buses".Everyone is an escapee from a Donald McGill postcard.Cheeky bus driver,frustrated housewife,fat lady with glasses,miserable husband,buffoonish authority figure........
Perfect entertainment for the Midnite Movie crowd, but could be offensive to women and of a moral authority.
The movie has a rebel flair with the nurses mouthing off to authority and even befriending a bootlegger (who is one of the heroes of the film).The movie is pre-code so it's pretty spicy for the 30's .
Tired old tale of a rough boy from a hellish background whose heart's in the right place and who battles against the odds to make it because there's one radical authority figure who believes in him.
These guys filmed themselves sinking fishing vessels in international waters, armed with the argument that out there no one has authority over them, claiming themselves to be heroes for enforcing local laws.
But the Grand Inquisitor of Spain (Lance Henriksen) has other plans... he is his own authority, allegedly guided by God Himself.
Unilke the kindness and respect portrayed in Grand Illusion (Renoir's account of prison camp civility from WWI), Ballad of a Soldier leans a bit more toward Triumph of the Will in its seemingly unrealistic depiction of authority figures.
However, having almost killed people with just my bare hands, I can tell you with authority that without a person holding it with the nerve and idea to do the killing, a gun cannot do a thing.
Anyway, a video store owner is the first to be visited by a zombie, and since the sheriff is out of town and the deputy went back to the place of some woman he went out with last night (who just happened to live in Panama City, Florida), the town is without an authority figure, so the video store guy plops the corpse in the lobby of the sheriff's office with a post-it note stuck to its forehead (for the sheriff to call him on Monday, of course).
They have no moral authority to lecture the survivors about anything, but they do just that.
Eliminating it will not only help farmers and the West as it tries to curtail heroin use, but also Afghanistan's infant government as it struggles to assert its national authority against the warlords.
I speak with some authority on this subject.
Some aspects of international law -- for example, principles of diplomatic immunity, or international communications standards -- have little need for such a sanctioning authority.
There is no international regulatory authority for financial markets, and there is not enough international cooperation for the taxation of capital.
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