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Editor Gerald Fiel and Director Peter Brook apparently recognized that they could not recreate many of the undertones produced by Golding's subtle style. The film barely suggests the identification of the devil with a boar's head--the Lord of the Flies. It scarcely explores the complex character of Simon--prophet and martyr--whose murder follows his dialogue with the Lord of the Flies. But it does capture the power of both Golding's story about boys and his philosophy about...
...Robert Louis Stevenson, to whom Thomas was faithful in plot structure alone, replacing Stevenson's old salty seadog manner with a moody romanticism, but preserving Stevenson's gun-shooting, skeleton-rattling scary tale of fists, love and danger. His most interesting character is Case, the incarnate devil-"ironically attitudinizing, full of disgust and venom there in the fly-loud, flyblown, bottle-strewn bedded room." The part is intended at present for James Mason, but Burton would do well to trade traders with...
...learned belatedly that rendezvous in Portuguese means a room hired for assignations. Africa is an account executive's nightmare. Native words acceptable in one town are obscenities 50 miles away, and that old advertising catchword "magic" has doubtful value; to Africans the word is linked with a mythical devil named Tokoloshe, who gets young girls pregnant. To get through to Africans who do not read ads in the press or see them on TV, Coca-Cola passes out free dresses with Coke bottles colorfully imprinted in indelible...
Turning Ideals. Prawdin leaves the reader with the haunting notion that perhaps some kind of devil is the spiritual father of Soviet Communism. Sergei Nechaev, son of a serf, grew up in St. Petersburg at a time when poor students chafed and brooded under Russia's vast and manifest injustices. Ideals of universal love, liberty and truth gained currency among the crust-fed scholars of the imperial universities. It was Nechaev's peculiar vocation to batten upon these noble spirits and convert their intentions into their logical and ethical opposites-hatred, subservience and lies. With the energy given...
Thus would a prince who believed Machiavelli suppress The Prince. If Communism, as Marx said in 1848, is "a specter haunting Europe," then Nechaev, one of the devil's saints, is a specter haunting Communism...