Word: davises
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THE Serpent and the Rainbow comes out of a collaboration between two Harvard graduates, executive producer, Rob Cohen '71 and author of the book, Wade Davis '75. In an interview with The Crimson, Cohen and Davis shed some insight on the making of the film.
Cohen: It was an emotional thing. I had read the book and I had also studied anthropology at Harvard. I read it and said to myself, "God, this is the road not taken. If I had been an anthropologist maybe I'd have had some of these great experiences like...
Davis: I think that one of the wonderful things about this picture is that recently I have objected to certain pictures that have dealt with the issue of voodoo, [notably] Angel Heart, which I felt was racist, both subliminally and explicitly. This was a film where every black person was...
Davis: The most important thing is that voodoo is not an aberrant cult. It's only the American culture that has portrayed it in this way. When the U.S. Marine Corps occupied Haiti, everyone above the rank of sergeant got a book contract, and those books got names like Cannibal...
High Tide's Lilli (seething enigmatically under the tight rein of Judy Davis' performance) is quite like Judith Hearne. Rootlessly she ranges the Australian provinces as another sort of fringe musician, backup singer for an Elvis imitator. She too drinks, and though she will indulge in desultory sex, it is...