Word: burdens
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...Southern conservative, celebrating the agrarian traditions of the region, but found himself fascinated by the vulgar, driving (and possibly transformative) energy of Huey Long, Louisiana's legendary Governor--Senator-- presidential candidate, who was the model for his book's Willie Stark. Novel and film are narrated by Jack Burden (Jude Law), scion of the now enervated Louisiana ruling class, who, as a newspaper reporter and then as a gubernatorial lackey, is both the author's surrogate and the audience's--a man who wants to be an ironic observer of events but irresistibly becomes the instrument for destroying his surrogate...
...film, as in Warren's novel, Burden is Stark's equal, and the restoration of that balance is important to the movie's success. Commentators on Warren's work often say that it's a study in how power corrupts, and that Willie is essentially a good man ruined by dictatorial depravity. Sean Penn strikes that note, playing him with a kind of bantam-rooster energy--and good-ole-boy charm. But something else is present, thanks in part to Zaillian's alertness to Warren's nuances. Willie has what Huey Long surely did not: a primitive sense of original...
...Survivor • The Burden of The Living An executive made it to safety, but is wracked with guilt knowing his firefighter brother...
...Survivor • The Burden of The Living An executive made it to safety, but is wracked with guilt knowing his firefighter brother...
...Survivor • The Burden of The Living An executive made it to safety, but is wracked with guilt knowing his firefighter brother...