In such moments, the director treats adolescence as a magic time — most of the boys try out men's dangerous games and don't get badly hurt.
(The Nazis had offices at the studio and regularly looted resources for their own needs.) The director treats them as two wholly different types, with wildly varying temperaments.
But when the director treats us to a gratuitous shot of some actual rats within the first few moments, we are reminded this is a director on whom the concepts of subtlety and symbolism are somewhat lost.
Though he botches the suspense -- the movie plods and stumbles where the novel teases and races -- and reduces the dead poets to costumed ciphers, the director treats the romance with less cynicism than his earlier movies ("In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends and Neighbors") would lead one to expect.
The young Queen builds a faux-pastoral paradise in the grounds, where she and her little daughter sport like shepherdesses, but, rather than raise an eyebrow at this make-believe, the director treats it as just another white-linen moment, like an outtake from "The Virgin Suicides," and, for good measure, tosses in a few shots of nodding flowers and ickle bouncy lambs.
PAGE D3 ARTS PREVIEW AUDIENCES TUNE UP BROADWAY SHOWS New York theater producers and directors treat preview runs as serious, multiweek, creative periods.
But for the most part, religious admirers of these directors treated them and their films not as object lessons for nonbelievers about the consequences of nonbelief but rather as revelations for believers about the true challenges of faith.
German directors treat any play, however successful it has been in other productions or places, as a springboard for their own vision, which is why this is the theatre culture that populised the word and work of dramaturgy.
Such tactics rarely produced thoughtful or challenging drama, especially when directors treated Oliver's "Please, sir, I want some more" as an invitation to give audiences more of the same.
C.E.O.s have been able to get away with neglecting succession for the same reason that they've been able to get away with being grossly overpaid: boards of directors treated them as kings instead of as caretakers, and shareholders seemed not to mind.
