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...over across the hill, the Japanese are doing the same. Every cliche is in its niche: the sensitive downy-cheeked youngster who wants to be a lawyer; the noble captain (Wilde) who tells the lad that he "will be a better lawyer for all this"; the hillbilly hankering after "jes' one more woman afore Ah git it." Grisly glimpses of shot-off limbs and other carnage lend the film a certain sense of reality, but in the end blood and treacle flow at equal rate...
...Jes' fine...
...Jes' fine...
...World War II, a scandalous, enigmatic fictional scamp named Pito Perez suddenly loomed on the Mexican literary landscape. He was modeled after a real-life picaresque oddball named Jesús Pérez Gaona, and was immediately hailed as a personification of the national character. Bloody, absurd, splendid, his story seemed to mirror Mexico. The Futile Life of Pito Perez -his equivalent U.S. name would be something like Penny Whistle Jones-was not so much an instant bestseller as an immediate national classic. Its author, José Rubén Romero, became a figure of renown* But strangely, until...
...that placed the man in the context of his own countryside. The fabulous hills and by now mythical Pedernales River were reduced to their actual proportions, to sere ranch land and meandering stream. Next to them, the President suddenly appeared lifesize, and shucking both his White House mantle and "jes' folks" delivery, he reminisced about his beginnings with pride, enthusiasm, wit and spontaneity...