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'WiseBloo do-it-yoursi By David Baker 1 Gamecock FHm Critic ^ The many Columbians who got j so worked up about the exhibition i of Monty Python's Life of Brian i this past October apparently were ] not alerted to the theme of John j Huston's remarkable new film, i Wise Blood. Based on the first , novel by Flannery O'Connor, the | picture is a scathing, uproariously < funny indictment of the do-it- < yourself religions that are so ] abundant in the more backward areas of the rural South. I ] ITS PROTAGONIST, Hazel j Motes (played by Brad Dourif of ; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), ] is just back from a stint in the ^ army when he begins to realize \ how fanatical his fellow town- j 3peopie are aDOUi religion, in a < - Schor, Wright, Doun brilliant title sequence, Huston ? shovs us the repent-or-ye-shall-bedamned-forever signs, billboards and tombstones that Hazel feels \ are taking over what was once his f world and making fallacies out of c the preachings of his grandfather s (played by Huston, in flashbacks). r Incensed at the gullibility of the t people he encounters, Hazel sets f out for the big city where, after c being mistaken for a preacher, he j decides to create a church without v Christ ? a church where4'the blind J don't see, the lame don't walk, and the dead stay that way." s s SURROUNDING HAZEL c Ihrmiahnnt tko f i 11V1 U * ? ?* V/U^iiuuv VIIV A 11111 CI 1 V- OU111U \J 1 II1C I most eccentric characters ever f presented on the screen, including r fl Cook's ?s Lemon Brow WKole Call 777-8198 fc rl9 1li elf religion jw^ulvl Leora Watts, a 300-lb. porker who I jperates "the friendliest bed in { v :own" and who "don't mind if you | 1 vf?^g^ > iin't no preacher, just as long as | /ou got four dollars," Enoch j Lrwwi> v w Emery, a mentally retarded | BBflSlllEIEHBti sookeeper who's infatuated with I c_ - .. the monkeys to which he is often lL*. _ J!!L compared, and Asa Hawks, a self* blinded street preacher whose daughter, Sabbath Lili, becomes obsessed with the idea of luring THE SI Hazel to bed with her "fast eye." Each member of this f?)!\/ll\/l[~l TF sewildering assortment of sup- ? porting characters is flawlessly .?.?? jurirayea oy such notable actors I I I?Jl""* as Harry Dean Stanton, Ned I Beatty and Breaking A way's Amy M Wright, but it's Dourif's offbeat" I performance as Hazel that I arovides the film both with its I; >ense of unity and its sense of the jl :V s! organizations ibsurd. , , rule or regule HUSTON HAS filled the picture vith images as outrageous as the >erformances ? a madonna-and.LM J I a - - - :nua snoi ot Wright with a I shrunken mummy is particularly ? APPLICATOI nemorable ? and his sense of j: iming has suffered not one whit : GOVERNME rom his being away from the | j iirector's chair more than five I , i?v?? 'ears (Huston's most recent film I III?H?ItDtH. I?Jtn vas 1975's The Man Who Would Be h Cing). It??a?? I can't recommend Wise Blood trongly enough. There hasn't been j ..?U ? J-i:-: > 1 uui i a uenuiuusiy evn-minciea |H Arts^'c! omedy since Sidney Lumet's rag | prowidi Jetwork, and that one took home ?8 I t?nuln( our Oscars for its hilarious H I stuaen fl reque nahciousness. ( , r, Mark Ainswortrt I j H John Alt.iD Ai.nn En I MikeAinrignt I 1 ; , ADdu Ansariiarl ^ j ! M Gouma A/i mm g\ m 9m i Dale Alan naiies 1 P Hi funlcpu R.ikAnir WMB Wi ? David Oaker QCBN 9 ! i Marie bowSS* ^ ! ] John BradieV-Xu John Brlmelovv \ Wayne T Brook* STUDENT NIGHT I SET* f Dorothy Campagn.1 _t A. BSjPl Rot>ert T (".von in [rBgj Patrick cely Hugh Chandler Top of Carolina H . 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