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by Patrick Mcintyre & Philip. Musselman

Video Views is basically a movie review article
based on the “Four Star’? method of rating
movies (four stars being great, three being good,
two being fair, and one star being poor).

The Bride .
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THING... ccrecseecccscecsvececenctsceenceuseeeutes 116 min
Released ........:cecssccacssestescecenteversesenseceses 1985

Starring Jennifer Beals (Eva), Anthony Higgins
(Clerval), Clancy Brown (Victor), David Rap-
paport (Rinaldo), Geraldine Page (Mrs.
Baumann), and Sting (Frankenstein).

Director: Franc Roddan-
Producer: Victor Drai

Screenplay: Lloyd Fonvielle

Patrick Mcintyre review

Rating: * *#%

‘*He’s alive! He’s alive, I tell you! He's
alive!!!’

This outcry of joy and triumph has echoed
through time ever since the original Frankenstein
was released in 1931. Rarely has a monster cap-
tured the hearts of horror fans as much as the
Frankenstein monster. So when I heard they were
remaking Frankenstein — again — I got a little ex-
cited. Then I found out that two very appealing
personalities would be acting in it, Sting and Jen-
nifer Beals. I had to give this video a look.

Watching this film, I realized how easy it is to
ruin a production.

The plot is simple. Dr. Frankenstein (Sting)
creates a mate for his monster, but a laboratory
fire forces the monster into the forest. He meets a
midget named Rinaldo, who takes him to
Budapest to join the circus. Meanwhile, Franken-
stein teaches the female creature the ways of up-

perclass womanhood with the individuality of, a.

man, not realizing he was creating — a monster.

I didn’t quote the now infamous line at the
beginning of this review to be cute: I wanted to
make a point. The 1931 release is a great film, a
film that is ALIVE (and I recommend you see it)!
However, The Bride ‘is, literally, half-dead. The
scenes with the monster (Clancy Brown) and the
circus midget (David Rappaport) are fabulous.
Their friendship is touching and makes the final

‘ tragedy effective. Unfortunately, the other half of

the movie is dismal. I don’t know, Sting has a real
presence and Jennifer Beals has so much energy,
yet in their scenes together, the film almost comes
to a halt. I was actually waiting for these scenes to
get over with so I could watch the parts with the
monster again.

There is another fault with The Bride (besides
the plot inconsistencies and a misplaced peasant
mob scene). The original monster in the Mary
Shelley novel was an intelligent, vengeful being
who was determined to destroy Dr. Frankenstein's
life for depriving him of companionship. In the
1931 motion picture, the monster was simply an
innocent, misunderstood creature. The Bride
decides to have some sort of hybrid of the two,
and what we're left with is really not a monster at
all — just a big, lovable oaf with a slight facial
scar.

~ Rustlers’ Rhapsody

Rated .....ccsec00 pectustsavatatenveseeecatasenecneeses PG
Times serreseeerevee sence eccessceneutoeeeansonnes 89 min.
Released ....ccccsccccvecsccevcccosceteseaseesessessees 1985

Starring: Tom Berenger (Rec O’Herlihan), C.W.

Bailey (Peter, town drunk), Marilu Henner (Miss
Tracey), Patrick Wayne (Bob Barber), Andy Grif-

 fith (Colonel Tronderoga), Selua Ward (the Col-

onel’s daughter).

Director: Hugh Wilson
Producer: David Giler
Sceenplay: Hugh Giler

Philip Musselman review

Rating: k#**4

Some of us were brought up on horror movies,
while others were brought up on comedy movies,
while still others, like me, were brought up on the
Western movies. You know, those motion pictures
that spawned such actors as John Wayne, Clint
Eastwood, and Charles Bronson. Ah, those were
the good old days, when the good guys were
almost unbeatable, especially when their families
were the victims of the ‘black hats’, or to those
who are not as comfortable about the westerns,
the ‘bad guys’.

Some of us may remember these great films that

captured the attention of anyone who ever dream- |

ed of the old west. I was and always will be, a true
western fan, one who mourned the death of the
Duke. In this parody, we find the movies of old
mixed with the ‘spaghetti westerns’ of not so old.
The movie pokes fun at both types of. westerns
without actually saying whether they were good or
bad. The gags are quite amusing and do not really
offend us western fans.

This is what makes the whole thing work; you
can’t make a good parody without trying to make
the film light enough to avoid misinterpretation. I
will not give away any of the funny parts so you
can truly enjoy this amazingly amusing movie.
Some may feel that the humor is somewhat ob-
vious or even stupid, but if it worked for Airplane
and Top Secret, then it can definitely work for this
film. Besides, parodies have always made fun of
the obvious.

This story is almost like a typical western, but it
definitely has some major surprises in store for
you (unlike the older westerns). In fact, the format
of most westerns tends to make this film whole
without turning it away from comedy; you could
almost say that western movies were made for the
purpose of parody.

Other movies

McIntyre Musselman

In Terrace court

. by Carrie Olson woman. with impaired

On Tuesday, June 24a
Terrace youth was ar-
rested overnight after be-
ing observed fleeing
from a restaurant at ap-
proximately 3 a.m. -

Terrace RCMP said
the youth will be appear-
ing in Terrace Provincial
Court in August.

On Saturday, June 28
the Terrace RCMP
charged a Terrace

driving, after her vehicle
struck a stop sign.

In Terrace Provincial
Court on Wednesday,
June 18 Kenneth Morgan
was jailed for 14 day
consecutive for a breach
of recognizance. Morgan
was also jailed for 30
days for a breach of
recognizance. Kenneth
Morgan was jailed for 30
days concurrent for a
breach of recognizance,

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Terract Review — Wednesday, July 2, 1986 9
Local parent says

Nannies need recognition

Local

TERRACE —
resident Claudette
Sandecki would like

‘Canadian nannies to be

recognized in the Labour

. Law.

by Carrie Olson

Sandecki’s daughter is
a trained nanny who
went to school in
California and obtained

_ qualifications for her

chosen profession. The
reason for attending
school in California was

’ due to the fact that at the

time there were no
educational institutions
in Canada equipped to
train students to become
nannies.

The problem with nan-
nies becoming a new pro-
fession in Canada is they
are not recognized under
the Labour Law,
Sandecki said. She
pointed out that the
Labour Law has two
categories; one; beng a
‘sitter’, which is a per-
son who does not
necessarily have to get
paid minimum wage.
The hours of work are
untimited. And two; be-
ing a ‘‘domestic’’, which
is a person who lives in
the home and does
domestic duties such as
cooking, cleaning, etc.
They receive $3.65 an
hour or $29.20 a day as
their wage. A ‘‘domes-
tic’? person also receives
no payment for working
overtime, Sandecki said.

A nanny is responsible
for looking after the
children who live in the
household. They do a bit
of cooking and cleaning,
but only take on jobs
that relate to the
children, not the entire

duties of a nanny don’t
fit into the two
categories of the Labour
Law, and therefore there
should be a special
category which defines
the work of a nanny.

Sandecki’s daughter is
presently working in
Vancouver. Sandecki
eventually hopes that
nannies will be certified
and the number of hours
they work will be
limited,

Court

On Wednesday, June
25 five Terrace residents
were arrested overnight
for being drunk in a
public place. .

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On Thursday, June 26
a Terrace woman was
charged with impaired
driving, and refusing to
supply a breath sample.

Terrace RCMP said
the woman was arrested
after the vehicle she was
driving struck another
vehicle.

Fire update

Two new fires were
reported and actioned in
the Kalum_ Forest
District last week. Both
fires were of a minor
nature.

Fire danger

throughout most of the

district is ‘moderate and

was high in most of the ~

region at the end of this
past weekend,

The Ministry of

Forests requests that
everyone travelling in the
woods exercise caution
with fire. Anyone seeing
a fire can report it by
calling the operator and

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