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标题：Attitudes in Advise and Consent
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作者：Robin Wood
期刊名称：Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism
电子版ISSN：2047-1661
出版年度：2011
期号：2
出版社：University of Warwick
摘要：Robert Leffingwell Henry FondaSeab Cooley Charles LaughtonBrigham Anderson Don MurrayBob Munson Walter PidgeonLafe Smith Peter LawfordDolly Harrison Gene TierneyThe President Franchot ToneHarley Hudson Lew AyresHerbert Gelman Burgess MeredithJohnny Leffingwell Eddie HodgesStanley Danta Paul FordFred van Ackerman George GrizzardEllen Anderson Inga SwensonHardiman Fletcher Paul McGrathMinority Leader Will GeerOrrin Knox Edward AndrewsAdvise and Consentfinally reveals Preminger as one of the cinema's great moralists. The film's construction is founded upon an intricate pattern of parallels between various char-acters. Attitudes are defined and illuminated by their juxta-position with other related yet significantly different atti-tudes. Each character is gradually led to the point where he must confront himself and pass judgment. Most of the major figures – Leffingwell, Anderson, Cooley, van Ackerman, the President – have images of themselves as 'men of princi-ple', and by the end of the film each has had this image cracked or shattered. Only Munson, who has no such image, is exempt from this process (trial); and only Harley Hudson, the Vice-President, is led to a self-reappraisal which is more favourable than his previous image. These two emerge as the most sympathetic men in the film, the touchstones be-side which the 'different sorts of failure' of the others fall into perspective