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'Dick Tract By MICHEAL GAY Staff Writer I was bracing myself for a let-down in th< dark. Sitting in my seat munching popcorn, > ' -? '?- 11 wonaerea now mey were gumg 10 pun 11 un The Dick Tracy previews I had seen suggestet * they had it all: big explosions, colorful gang sters, a love triangle, big explosions, hard hitting fist fights, heavy, gun-fire, big explo - sions, Madonna as a vamp, a kid side-kick, styl ish clothes and cars and big explosions. Maytx I should forget the movie and watch the pre views, I thought. I had little to fear. This movie does have i all. From the moment Dick Tracy starts, you en ter its richly imagined world and you are sur rounded by it, enveloped in its wealth of colo and detail and action until Warren Beatty an< his crew are ready to let you go. The film is a visual feast. There's a sense o so much happening, so much to see, all withou a single wasted detail or moment. The film' primary color scheme lends it a comic-bool simplicity, yet its attention to detail and ligh may remind you of the Baroque seediness o Reginald Marsh's New York paintings. This re suits in a dynamic visual tension. Dick Tracy i a comic strip come to life in a child's dream. As for plot, character interaction dominate the film. Tracy must come to terms with hi fatherly instincts towards the Kid, a homeles pickpocket. Tracy must struggle with his con flict between his love for Tess Truehart and hi attraction to Breathless Mahoney. These emo EASY COIN LA AT 2002 GREENE Open 7 AM TO 11 f 2812 ROSEWOOD SHOPPIh OPEN 24 HOURi 3215 DEVINE AT MILLWOC WASH, DRY CLOTh $.50 PER LB. 10 LB. 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Yet as the torch-singer cum gang3 ster'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 t West's mouth could ever hold, her Breathless - Mahoney was the embodiment of both a comic strip femme-fatale and a Hollywood glamour r queen. i Although he'd done a good job in many of his previous film roles, Warren Beatty could not f invest Dick Tracy with adequately heroic propt ortions. Sure he's tough on criminals and yeah, s he throws some pretty mean punches. But the k hook-nosed, squinty-eyed relentlessness of the t comic-strip character was little to be seen. In f the comic-strip Dick Tracy you find an intensity - that is rock-hard, impacable ? justice seems s fated and inevitable. That's not to say Beatty did a terrible job, s however. I suspect that the Dick Tracy created 5 in the movie script was not intended to be a s copy of the comic-strip version. The movie portrayal of Dick Tracy endowed the character 5 with more sublety and range in his emotional - expression, more warmth and vulnerability than in | rT\mn\7ll UI>jjhi ST. =>M JG CENTER, T )D, WE CAN min. Queen W PM <M "J is. for $5.50 Oil I YS HI Wednesday and IpjilgiiWSggIg n Draft Special ay, August 24 lie Ayes August 25 Hostages X\^lli for Ladies XL :30 on ly and Thursday. ^ Includes: Frame, ( C , deck, h M fill kit, "fit. " 7402-C G Col 3C Laws Enforced ERS' TRAINING CORP HMttL am IBB r ME THE INTERVIEW. : GOT ME THE JOB. r competitive for this job. I'm sure ie and good grades kept me in the le end it was the leadership and erience I got through Army ROTC er. i to develop impressive leadership my ROTC elective. Register now n. eJProtc SMARTEST COLLEGE USE TOD CAN TAKE. act: Cpt. Holman it Legare College (on the Horseshoe) omise to si the single-minded sternness to be found in thi comic's hero. As a result, Dick Tracy's origins gigantic stature was whittled down to more ere dible and human size. Ideally, we deserved bot a creaioie ainu larger-tnan-ine nero. But nu maity is never a poor trade-off. This movie boasts an accomplished cast, bi one actor stands above the rest. A1 Pacino treat us with a wonderful performance as Tracy' great nemesis, Big Boy Caprice. Pacino's actin is pure brilliance. His Caprice attracts and re pels at once: when he paraphrases famou thinkers of the past, he is hilarious; when he i matter-of-fact and meekly apologetic as he's ab out to gruesomely end someone's life, he i chilling. Pacino practically steals the show wit) this role, the same way Jack Nicolson did as th Joker in Batman. Prosthetic makeup success fully creates Big Boy's looks, but Pacino sup plies the heart and soul. Big Boy Caprice i hands-down the most memorable character ii the film. Except for a lack of total success in Beatty' role, this movie doesn't strike a false note. It i briskly paced, visually seductive, well-produce< and full of cinematic energy. Hollywood too of ten succeeds in whetting our movie-going appe tites but usually fails to sate it. If you've yet t( see it, you may be wondering as I was, "Is th< movie as good as the preview?" Wonder n< more. Dick Tracy is a blockbuster that lives u] to its name. By the way, the Roger Rabbit cartoon pre ceding the film was fabulous. Roller coaster: will never he fhe same CARC his Bed's faterbed ^complete ? headboard, pedestal, pqfpr linpr maltrpcc pnnrtitinnpr VM"V* ? ""V' J VV.??.MV..V. J King or Super single available lattress and Wat< 4 Big Lo vo Notch Road lumbia, S.C. 786-2383 arners Ferry Road umbia,S.C. 783-9648 GO CC s 1 On Broadway... Town Theatre perlorms |ig Neil Simon s Broadway Bound jjB Caiouna Lite paoe 3 Th? volume 82. No 87 I EX p for IV WEL< published:' ,{ Call 75 * immer audiences s * M g . 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