Word: orangutan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulgakov has been previously warned that his profound cerebrations will unseat his reason, that he has ''a little devil in his mind." A prime symptom: His astounding fondness for a caged orangutan which he subjects to a minute character-analysis. After his pet orangutan dies and Mr. Bulgakov pays a visit to the novelist's wife, up pops the devil. The scientist feigns madness (a circumstance which will extenuate his crime), kills the lady's husband with a very heavy ash tray. Then follows Mr. Bulgakov's big scene, with a stage entirely to himself...
...voices explaining the action, Rango is not a travelog but has a proper scenario. An old Sumatran hunter and his son have gone into the interior to rid the country of tigers. The struggle of these two humans against the jungle is a parallel of the struggle of an orangutan and its child, and this parallel contributes the story. The orangutan is remarkable because it is so similar to man, and in this picture the relationship is derogatory to neither branch of the species: the hunter and the ape are allies against death-by-violence as symbolized by the tiger...