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...Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, 'I am only joking!' " Proverbs...
...breadth and formal audacity without betraying the movie medium's demand for matter of fact naturalism. And he persuaded Shaffer, who had been disappointed by film adaptations of his plays, including The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus, to write the Amadeus screenplay, reshaping Amadeus from a madman's memory play to a more realistic musical biography. Recalls Shaffer: "It was like having the same child twice...
Instead, Erdosain joins a mysterious figure called the Astrologer in a plot to take over the world. It goes something like this: Give the masses a new religious symbol to believe in ("harness the madman power") and then exploit their zeal to create wealth, in this case by mining gold in a remote area of Argentina. The Astrologer explains: "See? We'll lure the workers in with false promises and whip them to death if they won't work." Erdosain feels flattered to be included among the brains of this organization. His invention of a copper-plated rose...
Montanans are used to Custer controversy. The Crow Indians, who hold most of the 9,000 privately owned acres slicing through the battlefield, leased land for the 1969 filming of Little Big Man, which portrayed Custer as a grandiose madman. Monument boosters who prefer a more sober-eyed version of the hero are trying to raise $8 million to buy the land...
...final scene, Gortchakov is crossing the fountain carrying a candle, just as the madman is preparing for a self-immolation ceremony atop a Roman sculpture, surrounded by a myriad of oglers and Biblical symbols. Such constant merging of the subconscious and conscious landscapes give the movie a pervasive sense of weirdness, as the scenes are organized around their symbolic and subconscious meanings, rather than a logical scheme. The result is cinematically dazzling, if, at times, difficult to watch because of disjointedness and the fact that very little actually happens...