Notables
Eagle Park Slim, blues guitar,
will be at the Saturday
Market, Saturday, )une 2, at
1 p.m. Following that at 2:30
p.m. will be the Freedom
jazz Quintet from South
Eugene High, and David
Banks playing guitar at 4
p.m.
Jim Page, an internationally
acclaimed folk musician and
poet, will be at the W.O.W.
Hall, Saturday, June 2, at 9
p.m. Tickets are available at
the EMU Main Desk, and
are $4 in advance, $5 on the
day of the show.
"Ghostbusters" the new Ivan
Reitman comedy starring Bill
Murray, Dan Akroyd and
Sigourney Weaver, will open
at the National Theater in
Eugene on june 8.
Photographs, paintings,
prints, ceramics, sculptures,
and jewelry are included in
this year's annual Master of
Fine Arts candidates' exhibi
tion held at the University
art museum through June
10. A closing reception with
the 18 artists in attendance
will be held from 2-4 p.m. at
the museum on June 10.
Laurie Anderson will play her
wry and creative brand of
music at the Hult's Silva
Hall on Sunday, June 3, at 8
p.m. Tickets to the concert
of this innovative perfor
mance artist are $11.50 and
$12.50. Bonnie Raitt will be
at the Hult on June 12 at 8
p.m., and Johnny Mathis
performs there June 16.
Tom Sharpe, hailed by many
as England's funniest
novelist, has invaded
America. Three of the
bestselling author's novels,
"Wilt,” "The Throwback”
and "Vintage Stuff," will
soon be in bookstores
everywhere.
The internationally acclaimed
Bach Festival brings back
maestro Helmuth Rilling to
town. For the second year,
the festival takes up part
residence in the Silva Con
cert HaN from June 25
through July 8. The festival
has 22 free concerts out of
the 40 it has scheduled for
this summer, according to
Festival coordinator Ffenriet
ta Heiny.
movies
Thrill factory does it again
"Just the
same, only
different."
Screen
writer
William
Goldman is
to be credited for coining that
seemingly paradoxical phrase.
He used it to describe the film
studio policy of remaking last
month's smash, striving to cap
ture the essential ingredients to
guarantee success, while at the
same time making it different
enough to be better.
The phrase can just as easily
be applied to the new Lucas
Spielberg thrill factory produc
tion — the "Raiders of the Lost
Ark" sequel, "Indiana Jones and
the Temple of Doom." The
thrills, the chills, the mile-a
minute pace, the exotic loca
tions and the self-effacing
humor are packaged in new
wrapping, but they're all there.
This sequel would be more ac
curately tagged as a "prequel."
It takes place before "Raiders"
— in 1935 to be precise. The
place is Shanghai, where In
diana Jones (Harrison Ford)
prepares to sell his latest ar
cheological find to a most eager
client. Typically, pandemonium
breaks out in a technically
spellbinding barroom brawl
which unites Indy with
nightclub -singer Willie Scott
(Kate Capshaw).
With the help of Indy's young
sidekick Short Round (Ke Huy
Quan), the three escape — they
think — into a waiting plane
(look for a cameo appearance by
Dan Akroyd in this scene). Of
course their troubles are merely
beginning and in no time Indy
and company are trekking off to
rescue a sacred stone and the
kidnapped children of a poor
Indian village. (Yes, they are in
India here. Don't ask me how
they got there, it's much too
complicated.)
It isn't plot that matters,
however. It's the brilliantly stag
ed action, the death-defying
stunts and the breakneck pace
of the film that sells the tickets,
and “Temple of Doom" has
plenty of that. If nothing else,
Spielberg is a master craftsman
when it comes to injecting ex
citement into a film, and he
tackles this one with vigor.
“Temple of Doom" goes by so
fast that you never notice the
plausibility gaps.
“Raiders" may have been the
first of the Indiana Jones films,
but I think "Temple of Doom" is
a slight improvement. "Raiders"
had the pace and the thrills all
right, but by the end I felt more
tired than exhilarated, and I was
disappointed by the "hand of
Cod" ending. When I go to see
macho adventure, I want the
hero to solve his own problems.
Screenwriters Willard Huyck
and Gloria Katz (close friends of
Lucas) overcome this problem
by and large. Indy still needs a li
tle help, but it certainly isn't on
so grand a scale, and the real
work is all done by him anyway.
And, despite the plot's creaks
and groans, this film builds bet
ter. The last half hour is literally
an action free-for-all where
anything goes and each suc
ceeding adventure tops the last.
A major new problem comes
up in this film, however. In mak
ing the bad guys seem real bad,
Spielberg and friends present
an almost sadistic situation that
is way out of line with the tone
of the picture. The scene show
ing a man slowly lowered into a
pit of lava and then burning to
death screaming is a little too
much.
Along the same lines the bad
guys are revealed to be child
slavers of a particularly brutal
nature. Spielberg and friends
spare us nothing in this sadistic
indulgence — one that seems
too out of hand at times.
Spielberg attempts to make
amends in a positive, upbeat
conclusion that works if only for
the exuberance of the ecstatic
children Indiana Jones has
rescued. However dark the film
gets (and it gets real dark), we all
know that Spielberg and Lucas
would never let the bad guys
win, and true to form, they
don't.
"Temple of Doom" is en
joyable, if mindless, entertain
ment. Willie may not exhibit the
independent spunk of Marion
Ravenwood, and the Indian cult
slavers, however nasty, are no
Nazis, but this film overcomes
its hard-to-swallow premise, and
delights, dazzles and entertains.
If nothing else, this is a supreme
achievement in logistics.
Plays at West 11th Tri-Cinema
with no discounts at all.
Sean Axmaker
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