[1312] in peace2
FRIDAY MOVIE!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julia Steinberger)
Thu Dec 13 14:20:22 2001
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:20:15 -0500
From: Julia Steinberger <julias@MIT.EDU>
FRIDAY MOVIE
"El Salvador"
Room 2-105 at 7:30 PM
as recommended by Phil! This may or may not be the Oliver Stone
movie Salvador
Fierce, ferocious and challenging on every level, Salvador remains
Oliver Stone's best film to date. Its combination of sharp
storytelling and first-rank acting keeps you on the edge of your seat.
James Woods, a dynamic actor who is sometimes difficult to warm up to,
plays a very complicated, flawed man (this is a retelling of a true
story) who you end up rooting for, in spite of the fact that he's a
self-acknowledged Weasel of Weasels.
Synopsis:
Richard Boyle (James Woods, in an Oscar nominated performance) is a
Gonzo journalist who lives an incredibly sordid lifestyle, while
scamming his more 'conventional' reporter friends for pickup jobs and
even handouts. Evicted from his rooms and abandoned by his wife, he
cons a disc jockey friend Doctor Rock (James Belushi) out of several
hundred dollars, and shanghais him to El Salvador, sneaking in the
back way through Guatemala, all to nail a civil war story to propel
him back into 'the working press.' In the war zone, he rekindles an
old romance with refugee Marma (Elpidia Carrillo), does 'dawn patrols'
into dangerous areas with ace camera journalist John Cassady (John
Savage), and wends a crooked path between venal Salvadoran military
killers, death squad thugs, moronic network field reporters, complicit
American CIA agents and a very harried Ambassador Thomas Kelly
(Michael Murphy). His unending whoring and drunkeness comes to an end
with the election of Ronald Reagan, a sea-change which signals even
more brutality and oppression from the puppet government. Activist
Archbishop Romero is assassinated and a volunteer nun friend, Cathy
Moore (Cindy Gibb) is raped and murdered along with 3 others. The
loudmouthed, fast-talking Richard is personally targeted in a land
which has become a killing zone, and even his own 'weasely' skills may
not be enough to save his life or that of Marma and her children.
from
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s265salvador.html
