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Stephen McLaughlin
Scoring Mixer -
Elliot Goldenthal
Original Music Composer -
Greg Powell
Stunt Coordinator -
Neil Jordan
Director -
Anthony Pratt
Production Design -
Cliff Robinson
Art Direction -
Lynn Goldman
Production Supervisor -
Matthias Gohl
Music Producer
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SPDonlan 7/22/2024 3:25:00 PM
Like many such epics, _Michael Collins_ is melodramatic and partial, about a past all too present. But much of the critical hostility it received/s is for offending popular pieties, imperial or republican, no less prejudiced. Jordan wrestled with historiography and moral complexity in writing his screenplay. He understood that any historical account involves selection and even distortion, not least to persuade producers and sell tickets. Ultimately, however, the period and place are too complex for Jordan to explain or Collins to contain: its violence is too roughly contextualized, its framing too hagiographical, and its characterization of De Valera too broad.
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