Lauda, who calculates the risk in everything, has a less impulsive courtship of Marlene (Alexandra Maria Lara), though it does start with one of the film's most pleasing scenes, a hitchhiking episode that offers a reverse twist on the celebrated Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert moment in "It Happened One Night".
This past winter, however, the playwright Douglas Carter Beane ("The Little Dog Laughed") rewrote virtually the entire book for the musical's Broadway bow, punching up the comedy and bringing the crowd-pleasing scenes of singing nuns into sharper and quicker focus.
The movie tries to have it both ways, both condemning the Crusades and yet offering crowd-pleasing scenes of Robin shooting (with a bow-and-arrow, of course) his way through Muslim soldiers.
It's risky to give a secondary character such a dominant, crowd-pleasing scene midway through a play of this length.
While there are moments of catharsis, raucous humor and peril in "Gloria Bell," including a crowd-pleasing scene involving a paintball gun, much of its running time is devoted to simply observing Gloria as she goes about her unremarkable daily routine — plucking stray hairs from her chin, going to her daughter's yoga class or trying to zip up a dress on her own.
Without it, Deford would be introducing himself with a straightforward, rhythmically pleasing, conversational, scene-setting declaration.
It's awful!" He seemed strangely pleased: the scene's wretchedness reaffirmed his faith in the audience.
While I wasn't thrilled about having one vantage point to work from, there was something pleasing about the scene … made up of one part Edward Hopper and one part Museum of Natural History.
'Leave everything, please!' The chaotic scene when a flight crash-lands.
