Not exact matches
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certain kinds of people who thrive in an environment with the risk profile and anarchy
of a start - up,» says Sloan.
The film also weaves in lots
of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts
of one
kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess
certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).
It takes a
certain kind of director to turn this adaptation
of a French graphic novel into a comedy
of (t) errors; it takes a satirist
of In the Loop director / Veep creator Armando Iannucci's
talents to transform this into the sort
of farce that makes you lose bladder control.
I had to do it differently, because a
certain kind of super-ambitious artist didn't want to be in the same place as fresh new
talent.
In thinking about him one can not remain within the limited and relatively simple categories
of the evolution
of visual form: one is forced to consider the spiritual character
of the man, the problem
of the effect upon
talent of certain kinds of experience in the modern world, the problem
of the relation between traditional forms
of intellect and the creative impulse in this world — and other questions
of an equally unmanageable sort.