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'Dick Traci plenty ti By MICHEAL GAY > Staff Writer I was bracing myself for a let-down in the dark. Sitting in my seat munching popcorn, I wondered how they were going to pull it off. The Dick Tracy previews I had seen suggested they had it all: big explosions, colorful gang<-? 4- nwn A 1/\ifA finnr*!/* ~ 1 _ _ : L ? sicis, a iuvg uiangic, uig expiOSIUHS, liaiuhitting fist fights, heavy gun-fire, big explosions, Madonna as a vamp, a kid side-kick, stylish clothes and cars and big explosions. Maybe I should forget the movie and watch the previews, I thought. I had little to fear. This movie does have it all. From the moment Dick Tracy starts, you enter its richly imagined world and you are surrounded by it, enveloped in its wealth of color and detail and action until Warren Beatty and his crew are ready to let you go. The film is a visual feast. There's a sense of so much happening, so much to see, all without a single wasted detail or moment. The film's primary color scheme lends it a comicbook simplicity, yet its attention to detail and light may remind you of the Baroque seediness of Reginald Marsh's New York paintings. This results in a dynamic visual tension. Dick Tracy is a comic strip come to life in a child's dream. As for plot, character interaction dominates the film. Tracy must come to terms with his fatherly instincts towards the Kid, a homeless pickpocket. Trapy must struggle with his conflict between his love for Tess Truehart and his attraction to Breathless Mahoney. These Iffcl Get ln\ MB Join a "770 "TCTTD || / / 7"/ 7/7 All ABC Regulations Enforced Dear USC Students and Pai ' Our first yearbook, the Garn lina College in 1899. The aj I & Black will be the oldest p Black will cover all aspects o interest you. First, individual portraits are organizations may also take all students, and no appointr in The Gamecock student nt I I this past Fall, your annual v nounccu mine LramecocK. Russell House 313. The Garnet & Black yearbc have comments or questions us at 777-3977 or 777-3888 ,rr-.:"v 1 - 1 .. j' offers a o s limine emotions are counterbalanced by his unflinching dedication to crimefighting and his obsessive attempts to bring Big Boy Caprice to justice. Tracy's relationships are the strong foundations of the film. They are what everything else is built onto. Madonna was a pleasant source of surprise. Though she's a marvelous performer in some of her music videos, I had low expectations about her acting. Yet as the torch-singer cum gangster's moll she was sultry and sexy, a study in poise and restraint. Possessed of a cat-like grace and near as many sexual innuendos as Mae West's mouth could ever hold, her Breathless Mahoney was the embodiment of both a comic-strip femme-fatale and a Hollywood glamour queen. Although he'd done a good job in many of his previous film roles, Warren Beatty could not invest Dick Tracy with adequately heroic proportions. Sure he's tough on criminals and yeah, he throws some pretty mean punches. But the hook-nosed, squinty-eyed relentlessness of the comic-strip character was little to be seen. In the comic-strip Dick Tracy you find an intensity that is rock-hard, impacable ? justice seems fated and inevitable. That's not to say Beatty did a terrible job, however. I suspect that the Dick Tracy created ui uic liiuvi^ av^ipi waa iivji iiii^iiu^u tu a copy of the comic-strip version. The movie portrayal of Dick Tracy endowed the character with more sublety and range in his emotional expression, more warmth and vulnerability solved... Student Orgai _ *FRO] SHAR wBs } bona SALA 636 HARDEN STFtl Garnet & Black University of South Carolina Yearbook USC's Oldest Publication ems: et & Black, Volume I, was published inual has never missed a year and 92 ublication at The University of Soutl if student life and the yearbook staff h; : taken over a four week period; two v part with a group sitting. Individual ] nent is necessary. Specific dates, time iwspaper. c is a "Fall delivery" yearbook. This ailable in the Fall of 1991. So for thos all be available this September. Wa >rdered through registration. Books < to pick up your yearbook the foilov You may pay postage and have the in this paper or by contacting the St ? x>k staff invites you to get involved Tuesday, September 18th, at 7:15ptr concerning any aspect of the Garnet . We look forward to hearing from ; c, * * V >uVv , \ ^ ^ ^ Wv * __ ^ ^ vv r-m-Chief nd gives r audiences than the single-minded sternness to be found in the comic's hero. As a result, Dick Tracy's original gigantic stature was whittled down to more credible and human size. Ideally, we deserved both a credible AND larger-than-life hero. But humaity is never a poor trade-off. This movie boasts an accomplished cast, but one actor stands above the rest. A1 Pacino treats us with a wonderful performance as Tracy's great nemesis, Big Boy Caprice. Pacino's acting is pure brilliance. His Caprice attracts and repels at once: when he paraphrases famous thinkers of the past, he is hilarious; when he is matter-of-fact and meekly apologetic as he's about to gruesomely end someone's life, he is chilling. Pacino practically steals the show with this role, the same way Jack Nicolson did as the Joker in Batman. Prosthetic makeup successfully creates Big Boy's looks, but Pacino supplies the heart and soul. Big Boy Caprice is hands-down the most memorable character in the film. Except for a lack of total success in Beatty's role, this movie doesn't strike a false note. It is briskly paced, visually seductive, wellproduced and full of cinematic energy. Hollywood too often succeeds in whetting our movie-going appetites but usually fails to sate it. If you've yet to see it, you may be wondering as I was, "Is the movie as good as the preview?" Wonder no more. Dick Tracyis a blockbuster that lives up to its name. By the way, the Roger Rabbit cartoon preceding the film was fabulous. Roller coasters will never be the same. -i| .. X o Tfi] 3 ? ? (d o n x ^ 3 nization!! ?|s I I s i: ,ll u M NOON TO LATE NIGHT KYS IS FIVE POINTS NEWEST \URANT AND BAR. rURING DELUXE PIZZA, PASTA, NZA SANDWICHES, CREATIVE DS AND MORE. \W~" ,/y EET i I m. ttMflS wig by the students of South Caro' editions later the 1991 Garnet i Carolina. The 1991 Garnet & ive a few reminders which may reeks each semester. This year, jortrait sittings are free, open to :s, and places will be announced . means that a yearbook ordered e of you who preordered a book tch The Gamecock for details. ordered in this way are "pick up ring year when its arrival is anbook sent directly to you by usudent Media Office, located in with your yearbook - our first t in Russell House 305. If you Trvt- ?-t . j* . t .- 'Jisk. ~ ot DiiiCK, pieasc xeei ircc iu ^an foul * . \ ^ irm m j * * JfiML. wb UraK^BMr !_***? 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