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...could make circumstantial connections all day, but the fact is that in key aspects of character and plot, Interview With the Vampire and The Wings of the Dove spin strikingly similar stories. Sure, their twinship isn't biting anyone's neck just yet. Still, the similarities are telling and important, and all the more interesting for the fact that they are unlikely to receive much comment or notice...
...first half of the film is powered by the erotic virtual twinship of its protagonists, Philipe and Tom. The opening scenes show them always together-- imitating each other and people passing by, kissing the same woman simultaneously. Ronet and Delon even look uncannily alike with their blue-green eyes, tan bodies, open shirts and light colored pants. In perhaps the most disturbing scene of the film, Tom, alone in Philipe's bedroom, puts on Philipe's clothes and starts speaking as Philipe, pretending to address Marg and kissing his own image in the mirror. Philipe discovers him and orders, "Take...
...cannot permanently sacrifice the principles of YOUR revolution." So wrote Benito Mussolini to his brother rebel Adolf Hitler in a letter dated Jan. 3, 1940, reproaching Hitler for his cordial relations with yet another revolutionary-Stalin. But Mussolini, the founder of Fascism, proved in his own life the spiritual twinship of Fascism and Stalin's Bolshevism. He had marched under both banners without changing step...
Present knowledge of twins and twinship may be grouped under two heads...
Psychological. Obviously twinship need have no mental effect on fraternal twins other than the general effect of being the same age and subject to similar environment...