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| | On "The Hollow Men" |
 | | The trimmers in Dante have no hope of another death, but Eliot's hollow men understand dimly that if they endure the death which is prelude to rebirth they have some hope of salvation. | | | Though Eliot's language is deliberately ambiguous, it implies that the sightless eyes of the hollow men may see again, and confront the divine eyes which are "The hope only/Of empty men" and will reappear as "the perpetual star/Multifoliate rose" of heaven itself (CP, 81). | | | To the common observation that The Hollow Men expresses the depths of Eliot's despair, one must add that the poet in a sense chooses despair as the only acceptable alternative to the inauthentic existence of the unthinking inhabitants of the waste land. |
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http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/hollow.htm
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| | :: rogerebert.com :: Hollow Man |
| | "Hollow Man" deserves a niche in the Underachievement Hall of Fame right next to "Jack Frost." That was the movie, you will recall, where a dead father comes back as a snowman, and all he can think of to do is advise his kid about a bully at school. | | | "Hollow Man" stars Kevin Bacon, who in "Flatliners" (1990) was one of a group of medical students who dared to see how close they could come to death and still return to tell the story. | | | "Hollow Man" follows his "Starship Troopers," in which mankind ventures to the stars in order to squish bugs. |
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http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/20000804/REVIEWS/8040304/1023
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| | ELIOT - THE HOLLOW MEN |
| | But it is we who are the real hollow men, the poem hints- -not the lost violent souls like Fawkes (or even Kurtz). | | | A penny for the Old Guy We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. | | | It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core." Despite his hollowness, however, as Marlowe the narrator of the story insists, Mr. |
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http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/hmcl1007/1007anth/eliot.html
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| | Hollow Man Greg's Preview - Yahoo! Movies |
| | As a kid, I was fascinated by the intricacies of human anatomy; all those veins, nerves, and muscles; well, you see it all in Hollow Man; it's like the movie version of The Visible Man (a model in the 1970's that allowed you to build a human body with see-thru plastic parts). | | | Hollow Man looks to be slated for a prime late-Summer horror slot located thematically between The Sixth Sense and Deep Blue Sea; in other words, combining SFX-driven action with disturbing psychological twists and turns. | | | Obviously, this film is about a man who is invisible, and X is about a man who can see through things, but the similarity lies in that "see through" concept... |
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http://upcomingmovies.com/hollowman.html
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| | PlanetPapers - The Hollow Men - TS Eliot and society |
| | The imagery depicted in T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" evokes a sense of desolate hopelessness and lends to Eliot's generally cynical view of civilization during this period in history. | | | The image of the scarecrow, or hollow man, in the field with crossed staves can also be seen as an evocation of the Christian image of Christ suffering on the cross. | | | The overriding image of humankind as hollow men is powerful and depressing, but these are the exact feelings that Eliot most likely intended to convey. |
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http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/4822.php
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| | Hollow Man |
| | Hollow Man therefore complements Basic Instinct’s absurdly overstated world of male paranoia, in which every woman is either a murderer or a castrating bitch. | | | (Hollow Man intermittently gestures towards self-reflexivity and acknowledges its reliance on well-worn generic clichés: ‘If I die, pretend I said something clever’, Caine says before his transformation, which, he is jokingly warned, will ‘break the laws of nature’.) But Hollow Man is not an illustrated lecture on the stale topic of film and voyeurism. | | | Whereas in John Carpenter’s Memoirs of an Invisible Man the transparent hero is coerced into becoming a spy, that possibility is never explored in Hollow Man, which is content with a small scale drama of the fulfilment of private desires. |
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http://www.cult-media.com/issue3/CMRhunter.htm
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| | The Hollow Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hollow Man is the title of a 2000 movie starring Kevin Bacon as a brilliant scientist who devises a formula to turn himself invisible--but gradually goes mad from it. | | | The Hollow Man (written in 1935) is a famous locked room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr (1906- 1977). | | | The Hollow Men is the name of a poem, written by T. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Man
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| | Hollow Man. A Hollywood Jesus Visual Film Review. |
| | My comments on the Hollow Man review: You mentioned the NYC Puerto Rican pride incident when you were writing about voyeurism in modern culture. | | | Hollow Man is a high tech morality tale. | | | I think Hollow Man reflects a horrifying truth. |
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http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/hollow_man.htm
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| | Paul Verhoeven and his hollow men |
| | The final line of Eliot's "The hollow men" is "not with a bang but a whimper". | | | As we progress from RoboCop to Hollow man, we track his growing concern with the effects of ever-advancing, technologically mediated realities on the construction of subjectivity, and the intensification of globalisation and multi-national corporatism. | | | The viewer is actively invited to search for the flaws - and the hollow men - occupying the Federation's ruling order and its dominant ideologies, an order associated quite blatantly with the USA. |
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http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1201/anfr13a.htm
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| | washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide |
| | The movie is "Hollow Man," directed by Paul Verhoeven, the man who gave us "RoboCop." And it's the usual horror-film admonishment against playing God. | | | Aside from the wonderful effects, "Hollow Man" is a series of unintended howlers, including the goofy idea that humanity is threatened by the star of "Footloose." | | | To add insult to narrative invisibility, "Hollow Man" degenerates into a gruesome bloodfest, in which we watch character after character, well, getting it. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/hollowmanhowe.htm
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| | The Popcorn Gallery: Hollow Man (2000) |
| | Inspired by, though not really similar to, HG Wells' novel "The Invisible Man", "Hollow Man" is about a team of scientists trying to create an invisibility formula (here it's described as "going out of quantum synch" with the universe, but of course that's just the technobabble explanation). | | | Well, if the makers of "Hollow Man" are to believed, you'd probably take a page from any generic slasher movie of the past twenty-five years and start hunting down your friends in gory, if not particularly imaginative, ways. | | | And "Hollow Man" isn't even a particularly good slasher film, because we're not so much as afforded an interesting death sequence. |
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http://www.physics.mun.ca/%7Esps/movies/HollowMan.html
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| | Hollow Man |
| | Hollow Man is the type of trashy, throwaway cinema experience which makes Friday night at the flicks so appealing - it is as hollow as the central protagonist himself, but it is very entertaining, while being guilty of the usual Verhoeven excesses. | | | That Hollow Man successfully manages to tip-toe the line between bad taste and gratuity, while remaining so enjoyable, is partly due to the relish with which Verheoven directs the proceedings. | | | All are present and correct in Hollow Man, his latest low-brainer starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~vbloke/films/hollow.htm
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| | Out of Sight, a Scientist Is Also Out of His Mind |
| | Elisabeth Shue with the invisible Kevin Bacon in "Hollow Man." | | | A lot of work has clearly gone into the special effects in "Hollow Man," which uses the latest computer-generated imagery to update the cinematic obsession with invisibility that dates at least to James Whale's "Invisible Man" in 1933. | | | "Hollow Man" has neither the ripe atmospherics of "Basic Instinct" or "The Fourth Man" (the kinky Dutch sex thriller that earned Mr. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/library/film/080400hollow-film-review.html
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| | In a Dark Time » T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” |
| | ‘The Hollow Men’ not only depicts a dark theme representing man in his decaying state but even goes further to reveal a yet darker theme of the poet& helplessness to do something worth when values perish. | | | Although my research suggests that the hollow men probably represent Guy Fawkes’ dummies that are blown apart to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, for some reason the first stanza has always evoked images of the strawman in the Wizard of Oz, desperately seeking a brain, not realizing just how dangerous, and useless, a brain might be. | | | Although I’ll have to confess that the more I study T.S. Eliot& life and philosophy the more I realize why I originally rejected his poetry years ago, it is still hard to deny the pure, poetic power of his best poems. |
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http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2003/06/04/ts-eliots-the-hollow-men
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| | Hollow Man |
| | "Hollow Man is related to the man on the stair who was not there again today. | | | "Hollow Man is a major improvement on director Verhoeven's recent turkeys -- Showgirls and Starship Troopers -- but not quite up to the promise shown in such early work as The Fourth Man, or even RoboCop." | | | "Hollow Man is worse than hollow, it is rotten to the core. |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hollow_man
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| | Hollywood Gothique: Hollow Man - Review |
| | There is a line in which the Hollow Man admits to “scaring” the unfortunate woman, but we have no reason to believe that’s all he did. | | | Instead, the third act degrades into dumb action when the Hollow Man decides to kill his research team to keep his invisibility a secret. | | | This omission hurts the film because it is the first sign of the Hollow Man emerging madness—his initial step from being an anal retentive control freak to being a monster willing and even eager to throw away not only his career but his previous identity in order to act on his selfish impulses. |
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http://www.hollywoodgothique.com/hollowman2000.html
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| | hollow man |
| | "Hollow Man" follows the exploits of a team of young scientists working on a top-secret government project to perfect a process for making a person invisible. | | | Satan bought Kevin Bacon's soul in exchange for a successful, big-budget release of "Hollow Man," a horrendous film that figures prominently in the Dark Lord's plan to throw humanity into the blazing ovens of eternal perdition. | | | "Hollow Man" wisely ignores all those pesky issues of any nuance or intelligence, and instead focuses on the all-important question of "How could a guy use invisibility to scam on chicks?" Dr. Cain turns his brilliant mind to furthering the science of fondling your unsuspecting co-workers and sexually assaulting your good-looking neighbors. |
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http://www.mollen.net/hollowman.html
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| | Hollow Man |
| | In Hollow Man, director Paul Verhoeven has taken this principle one step further, by making his invisible man not just invisible, but also psychotic and murderous: driven insane by the scientific methods that gave him his power. | | | Whatever the case may be, Hollow Man is exactly that: a superficial film score with very little at its core. | | | The melancholy first cue, 'The Hollow Man', begins with various ominous electronic chords before switching to an impessive orchestral performance of the icy, undulating central theme. |
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http://www.moviemusicuk.us/hollowcd.htm
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| | DVDFILE.COM: HOLLOW MAN review |
| | Unfortunately, despite Bacon's strong portrayal, Caine is such a self-involved prick right from the get-go that his transformation into a supposed spiritually "hollow man" (get it?) becomes insignificant. | | | You'd never know it by reading the back of the keepcase, but Hollow Man features an Dolby Surround EX encoded soundtrack.§Why some studios are explicit about EX tracks on their DVDs while others are not, I'm not quite sure.§ The curious can always consult the Dolby EX page for a list of EX encoded films. | | | Too bad, because Hollow Man could have been a timely, effective exploration of the concept of invisibility, both in a cultural and spiritual sense. |
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http://www.dvdfile.com/software/review/dvd-video_2/hollowman.html
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| | "Hollow Man" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies |
| | "Hollow Man" is about a perverted invisible genius who goes crazy when they can't bring him back to visible again. | | | Through "Hollow Man", however, my eyes had to be hidden most of the film and when they weren't, my ears should have been. | | | This movie was hollow, man! I really enjoyed the last 30 minutes, but that was about it. |
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http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/2000/hollowman.html
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| | Paul Verhoeven and his hollow men |
| | The final line of Eliot's "The hollow men" is "not with a bang but a whimper". | | | As we progress from RoboCop to Hollow man, we track his growing concern with the effects of ever-advancing, technologically mediated realities on the construction of subjectivity, and the intensification of globalisation and multi-national corporatism. | | | Underlying the futuristic themes of the fantastic and the illusionistic splendours of effects spectacles, RoboCop, Total recall, Starship troopers and Hollow man confront the viewer with a critique of current socio-political issues that are specific to what we now term the "postmodern condition". |
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http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1201/anfr13a.htm
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| | The Rhythm of Music - A Magical and Mystical Harmony |
| | The curvaceous form is representative of a woman, and the hollowness inside has a likewise similar significance. | | | From a hollow ground covered with a floor, the drum progressed to a hollowed tree and then as the musical instinct of man evolved, developed into a cylinder or bowl made of wood, covered at both ends with a stretched membrane (like the 'floor' above). | | | Over time, the ancients realized that a greater amplification was achieved by hollowing out the surface of the ground being stamped upon, and covering the space created with a floor. |
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| | Wordcarvers: The Hollow Men by Eliot |
| | He speaks of people who have really died looking back at the current crop of living as "hollow men" -- not even lost souls, which is a pretty shabby place to be, when you think on it. | | | "I" may be a "hollow man." Perhaps, however, "I" is the pilgrim of The Waste Land, the man who has in his bones the civilization of Europe from Homer through the present, and who here has moved beyond the wasteland. | | | That said, incomprehensible as it is to me, "The Hollow Men" (in my humble and hopefully not too vehement opinion) is light years ahead of "Milk" in terms of simple reading pleasure. |
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| | HOLLOW MAN (2000): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR20071 |
| | Also contributing to the majority of ignominy in Hollow Man was violence [Prov. | | | Those of us who find gore replulsive would indeed be offended by Hollow Man but those of us who look for fine details in imagery would not be disappointed as the ape was brought back to visibility, organ by organ, vessel by vessel, bone by bone, almost hair by hair. | | | Hollow Man presented some innovative and state-of-the-art computer generated imagery of animal and human internal anatomy. |
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| | Dark Horizons |
| | But The Hollow Man is not just an exercise in sophisticated visual effects; first and foremost, it's a thriller, and for Verhoeven, "a story about the transference of evil. | | | The Hollow Man revolves around scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) who works with a secret military research team creating new intelligence technology. | | | All that remains is the 21st century's answer to the Invisible Man. |
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| | Myth@Bungie.org -> Legends and Lore -> Encyclopedia -> Who |
| | Called 'Hollow Men' in the West, the Soulless are most feared for the sticky venom with which they anoint their javelins before battle, for wounds contaminated by the toxin never heal... | | | Formerly the guards of the Emperor, they disbanded and wandered the earth in self-imposed exile after the Fallen destroyed Muirthemne and everyone in it. | | | "There will always be men lacking firmness of character or strength of will who are more than happy to carry out the orders of evil men to make their own lot in life a little more comfortable." |
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| | SPLICEDwire "The Hollow Man" review (2000) |
| | A slick, initially disquieting but ultimately silly update of the invisible man scenario, re-envisioned for a CGI world, "Hollow Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a mad scientist for the new millennium -- an egoist with an aggressive sex drive, few ethics and a burgeoning God complex that stems from his groundbreaking successes in DNA manipulation. | | | By the time "Hollow Man" was half over, I wished I could have disappeared, too. | | | But short of being adequately creepy, Bacon's performance is just as ham-fisted as the rest of the cast, who are forced to play the extraneous subplots about sexual jealousy as if "Hollow Man" were some Lifetime Network stalker-of-the-week movie retooled for the SciFi Channel. |
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http://www.splicedonline.com/00reviews/hollowman.html
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| | iJunkets #1: Hollow Man with Paul Verhoeven and Kevin Bacon |
| | And Hollow Man is a perfect example because, I dont think the Hollow Man could really exist or work without a computer. | | | PV : I dont think it was really different what can say between sp- - as a director working with an invisible man. That theres any outplay by Kevin Bacon on the set. | | | In blood theres a scene where somebody throws blood over him and hes all- - hes invisible but then basically his face and part of his body become visible because the blood being over him. |
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