... the same effect whilst reducing the required cast and running time and creating a pleasing translation of the "play within a play" device (often used in Shakespeare) to the "film within a film". However whilst cutting is both important and not without major effects, the reorganisation of scenes is perhaps of ... other American culture and this film in particular.) This Hamlet is typically American, grounded thoroughly in the culture and aesthetic of that nation (dressed in the wardrobe of the early to mid-nineties grunge music movement ) and influenced by its icons. In J.D.Salinger's clas...

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... school, but once he entered prep school, he was dropped out for failing. He briefly attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania (1934-1936), which was the source for many of his critical and cynical descriptions of Pency Prep in Catcher in the Rye. (He later admitted to having fond feelings for the school, however.) This was where J.D. developed his sarcastic wit, and started writing ... over pointless things, has a strange attraction to girls much too young for him, and is quite focused on suicide. In a manner of speaking, because of his adamant reclusive behavior, Salinger ...

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