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...Drum. The book sold more than 1,500,000 copies around the world (about 600,000 in the U.S.), as appalled and fascinated readers in 16 languages absorbed the dwarf's devastating, knee-high view of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Oskar's "sing-scream" could shatter glass. His magic drum carried him back and forth in time. One of his best tricks was breaking up Nazi rallies by hiding beneath the speakers' platforms and beating out counterrhythms on the tin drum. In his writing, in his life, Grass has played his own version of Oskar...
...ways. But the strange thing is whenever somebody starts winning, somebody else starts losing. Square battalions advancing and retreating. Oh me. They run in circles, they make victory dances in huge snake circles on me. They scream and yell and eat each other...
...getting into it tonight. "I've just had an idea," he says. "Tonight I want you to try and play each act like it was the whole show." Once the play starts he can't do a damn thing about it. Until then he can coax them, threaten them, scream at them. Tonight he is coaxing...
...Nothing, actually. It's just that every night-like clockwork at four a. m.-I wake up, jump out of bed, and scream my lungs...
...forehead, the camera looks down on his head beside the roaring fire where the iron lies. Sansho walks up; the camera tracks out, framing him and a few behind him. He grasps the iron and presses it to the man's temples. We only need hear his scream, for the first image established the man's plight indelibly. And by avoiding a sensational treatment, by refusing to show the man's head being branded. Mizoguchi achieves a drama of superior continuity and emotional force. He feeds the horror of the branding into the flow of the film, the continuously maintained...