Connive

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–verb (used without object)

1. to cooperate secretly; conspire (often fol. by with): They connived to take over the business.  



2. to avoid noticing something that one is expected to oppose or condemn; give aid to wrongdoing by forbearing to act or speak (usually fol. by at): The policeman connived [at] traffic violations.  



3. to be indulgent toward something others oppose or criticize (usually fol. by at): to connive [at] childlike exaggerations. 





 　

Producer-Director Robert Rossen offered the role of Willie Stark to John Wayne. Rossen sent a copy of the script to Wayne's agent, Charles K. Feldman, who forwarded it to Wayne. After reading the script, Wayne sent it back with an angry letter attached. 



In it, he told Feldman that before he sent the script to any of his other clients, he should ask them if they wanted to star in a film that "smears the machinery of government for no purpose of humor or enlightenment," that "degrades all relationships," and that is populated by "drunken mothers; conniving fathers; double-crossing sweethearts; bad, bad, rich people; and bad, bad poor people if they want to get ahead." 



He accused Rossen of wanting to make a movie that threw acid on "the American way of life." If Feldman had such clients, Wayne wrote that the agent should "rush this script... to them." Wayne, however, said to the agent that "You can take this script and shove it up Robert Rossen's derri?re..." Wayne later remarked that "To make Huey Long a wonderful, rough pirate was great," he said; "but, according to this picture, everybody was s--t except for this weakling intern doctor who was trying to find a place in the world." 



Broderick Crawford, who had played a supporting role in Wayne's Seven Sinners (1940), eventually received the part of Stark. In a bit of irony, Crawford was Oscar-nominated for the part of Stark and found himself competing against Wayne, who was nominated the same year for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). Crawford won the Best Actor Oscar, giving Rossen the last laugh.





solipsism

Gallo has limited himself to the most proudly [solipsistic] subjects.

And that anguished [solipsism] seems to be, at least in part, the movie's subject.

trope

any literary or rhetorical device as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony

the movie is a veritable scrapbook of [tropes] from the heyday of art film. 

The brief return to Israel at pic's end [contains] one rapid [visual] trope that may pass many auds by.

evict

evince

manifest

yet another movie that [evinces] the filmmaker's obsession with fraternity, not to mention Irene Jacob's face.

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