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And yet the movie doesn't work, except for"a short time at the beginning, when we are meeting the characters. They're affluent professionals who have just packed the kids off to camp and are now embarking on a shopping trip to the local mall. There tire some laUgh§ in 'these opening scenes. but more important, interest is generated: we learn about these people to become curious. Even it This is a movie I've been looking forward to since it was first announced, How could Mazursky, whose work includes An Unmarried Woman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills and Enemies: A Love Story, possibly make a bad movie starring Woody Allen and Bette Midler? Isn't the combination of director and cast so good that the movie has to work? These remarks are inspired by Paul Mazursky's Scenes Fr a Mall, il movie that stars Woody Allen and Bette Mi and is very bad indeed. Ever since seeing the ' I've been trying to figure out what went wron . In a mediocre film with nothing to say, the details might provide momentary flashes of distraction, But the pure story line would be lost: the guy against the elements and a stubborn machine. When a movie seems overflowing with interesting, colorful details, that is often a sign at desperation - a way of saying, if the picture's no good, get a gaudier frame. Even Allen and Midler can't save Scenes FromA Mall Now what if I say, "A balding, middle-aged appliance salesman is on Alaska Route 47 trying to get his Ford Victoria started when it's 47 below zero." More interesting or less? Less, I'd say, because the additional detail was not crucial tor the thrust of my story. And what if I added lots of other touches, like giving him a bumper sticker that says, "The more I knpw mtthe mgre I trust dogs. rr Better or worse? For example, I tell you, "A guy is on a lonely road in cold weather trying to get his car started," What do you want to know? What he does to get his car started, right? There is a theory about film directing that teaches that every shot is wasted that does not further the story. When details are added to make things interesting, or colorful, they only distract from the forward progress of the narrative and bore us. TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH: THEATRE CENTRE BOX OFFICE 885M280 DRAMA DEPARTMENT 888-4556 PM Directed by Darlene Spencer March 19, 21, 22, 23 8:00 Theatre of the Arts University of Waterloo, Drama Department presents The entire drama, lock, stock and barrel, takes place inside the mall - all of the fights, all of the reconciliations. This leads to a mechanical and increasingly desperate search tor new locations, such as a sushi bar, a champagne-and-caviar lounge. many different shops and escalators. lots of escalators. What happens is, midway during a day that seems destined to be happy, the husband confes- ses he's been having an affair. This revelation inspires a series of arbitrary responses in Midler - calm, outrage, grief, rage, analysis, acceptance. a decision for divorce, a willingness to compromise - after which she tells him she's been having an affair, too, and the whole merryOFround starts again. -- """"""""'"""'t, - is the conspiracy by Mazursky and his collabora- tors to surround their unconvincing story with items inlanded to be interesting and col0urful. Few moments“ during this series of mutual revelations contain any degree of psychological truth. But what's much worse - what is maddening _ ies oh“ a.--'...-.. c. I L, . .. . Where it leads them, alas, is into a fog of arbitrary storytelling and desperate gimmicks, sudden reve- lations and unmotivated mood swings, in a movie that seems to have been written without having been thought about very much. The screenplay - by Roger L. 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