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We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin DOMINIC POWER Why would I not understand the context? I am the context. Kevin Khatchadourian We Need to Talk About Kevin Dir Lynne Ramsay 2011 Everyone's looking for an answer in this film and sometimes there just is no answer. . . Lynne Ramsay Online interview Eye for Film October 20, 2011 In 1954 the American writer William March's novel The Bad Seed became an instant bestseller. Published a month before his early death, March did not live to see the success that had eluded him through his career. The novel explores the proposition that an eight-year-old girl, who is compliant and loving on the surface, is capable of murder. It was quickly turned into a successful Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn was developed into a film by Mervyn LeRoy. In the film version, the child, Rhoda Penmark, played by eight-year-old Patty McCormack, is a monster in a party dress, whose cloying sweetness masks a complete absence of empathy and conscience. Despite its popularity at the time, The Bad Seed is a flawed, stage-bound film; Francois Truffaut dismissed it, as `an empty ¸ vehicle, a natural to make a lot of money for a handful http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New Soundtrack Edinburgh University Press

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Power, Dominic
The New Soundtrack , Volume 2 (2): 79 – Sep 1, 2012
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Articles; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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2042-8855
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DOMINIC POWER Why would I not understand the context? I am the context. Kevin Khatchadourian We Need to Talk About Kevin Dir Lynne Ramsay 2011 Everyone's looking for an answer in this film and sometimes there just is no answer. . . Lynne Ramsay Online interview Eye for Film October 20, 2011 In 1954 the American writer William March's novel The Bad Seed became an instant bestseller. Published a month before his early death, March did not live to see the success that had eluded him through his career. The novel explores the proposition that an eight-year-old girl, who is compliant and loving on the surface, is capable of murder. It was quickly turned into a successful Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn was developed into a film by Mervyn LeRoy. In the film version, the child, Rhoda Penmark, played by eight-year-old Patty McCormack, is a monster in a party dress, whose cloying sweetness masks a complete absence of empathy and conscience. Despite its popularity at the time, The Bad Seed is a flawed, stage-bound film; Francois Truffaut dismissed it, as `an empty ¸ vehicle, a natural to make a lot of money for a handful

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Published: Sep 1, 2012

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