Word: dankness
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...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
...hero, K, lived out his doom. Moving to Paris for later scenes, Welles picked the old, abandoned Gare d'Orsay (built for the Exposition of 1900, and now destined for demolition), whose baroque grotesqueries might well have been designed by Kafka; into its ruined corridors and dank corners Welles moved his props: the Advocate's gigantic gilt bed, hundreds of dripping candles, decaying tables and books. Wrote Director William Chappell in the London Sunday Times: "Welles discovered Kafka's world, with the genuine texture of pity and terror on its damp and scabrous walls, real claustrophobia...
...included because this too is a part of life that he would redeem. Miller has a great and wonderfully positive enjoyment of the senses, but he is unlike his characters who try to use sex as a narcotic. He wants to redeem degraded sex, too, to encompass the dank and foul-smelling underworld of existence into his vision, and to draw forth whatever ecstasy can be found even there. His sympathy extends to all of human life; even what he hates must be redeemed...
...lovers in a ruined church, its Christ figure splintered and dangling upside down in the foreground; Maciek setting fire to each glass of vodka on a bar and delivering weird incantations to old, dead loves; his girl drenched in sunlight while Maciek-in the death throes on a dank rubbish heap-whimpers and twitches like a wounded rabbit...
...make matters worse, the Auerhahn sings mostly at night, only when it feels the urge, and never for more than half an hour at a time. Many a luckless sportsman has shivered through an entire night in the dank, cold forest, only to go home at dawn-sniffling and hungry-without once having heard the pop of a cork. Since 1954, only 268 Auerhahne have been shot in the West German woods. Of these, 90 were shot down by U.S. armed forces personnel, who have taken to the sport with so much enthusiasm that they have already organized 100 hunting...