It is not that the creators of the film were inspired by base motives, but that they could not understand their motives, nor be responsible for the effect of their exceedingly complex motives, in action. to accept, deny, reject, and redeem it--and, also, on whatever level, to profit from it.”, “The blacks have a song which says, 'I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.' They cannot bear the judgment in the eyes of the people whom they intent to hold in bondage forever, and who know more about them than their lovers. -- Andrew J. Geary, AndrewGearyWrites. This is why the dispossessed and starving will never be convinced (though some may be coerced) by the population-control programs of the civilized. All of the energy of the film is siphoned off into these two dreadful and improbable creatures. He was a preacher as a kid, then came to reject Christianity. Those who have nothing useful to do and seeks some way of passing the time are liable to drift into wrongdoing. Archie, particularly, is struck by something he sees in the boy. This devil has no need of any dogma — though he can use them all — nor does he need any historical justification, history being so largely his invention. It was beginning to be clear to me that these two loves might, never, in my life, be reconciled: no man can serve two masters.”. No, this is not true film criticism, in the sense that James Baldwin is able to give the reader a blueprint for understand good and bad art qualitatively, but it’s not the wan social analysis that passes for film crit in academic circles, either. - IndieReader, "...picks apart Allen's filmography like an engineer; he looks at them, forces us to acknowledge them and ultimately opens the door for our own opinions to be formed." “The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.” —Unknown “May the devil make a ladder of your backbone – While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell.” —Irish Proverb “Logic is what the devil likes most.” —Kelly Braffet “Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find … Each week, I would deliver two or three scenes, which he would take home, breaking them — translating them — into cinematic language, shot by shot, camera angle by camera angle. The devil finds work for idle hands to do, after all. The film takes the view that he was a valiant, maverick, naive and headstrong, brutally broken in battle, and betrayed, less by his country than by his inability to confront — as do his superiors — the hard facts of life, in this case, referring, principally, to the limits and exigencies of power. At the end of The Exorcist, the demon-racked little girl murderess kisses the Holy Father, and she remembers nothing: she is departing with her mother, who will, presumably, soon make another film. So, in my scene, as written, Malcolm walks into the bar, dressed in the zoot-suit of the times, and orders a drink. Of this, Lawrence himself was most tormentedly aware. This pause is meant to recall to us the intolerable mortification he has endured, and to make comprehensible the savagery of this English schoolboy. If we do not know where the mulatto came from, we certainly know where a multitude went, dispatched by their own fathers, and we know where multitudes are, until today, plotting death, plotting life, groaning in the chains in which their fathers have bound them.”, “There remains the obligatory, fade-out kiss.