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Actors: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Stunt Man |
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Nothing is as it seems when a fugitive takes refuge as a stunt man on a movie set run by a very eccentric director.
--A. Pearson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Stunt Man |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals portrayed sympathetically on the run
- bad criminals on the run
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- mastermind
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- mind reading
- can see into the future
- can read emotions
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Specific kind of enemies?
- captors
Hair color
- blonde
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- orgies
- seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 (some)
Kind of violence:
- air battles
- land battles
- mission to rescue
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- drowned
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
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