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...facetiously: "Could you hear the prison doors clanking shut?" Nonetheless, the defense lawyer, John J. Wilson, was no less impassioned in attacking the Government's chief witnesses, Jeb Stuart Magruder and John Dean. Wilson described Magruder as a "professional liar" and Dean as a "mastermind of chicanery, of monkey business, of flouting the law, of having no conscience." The defense attorney dismissed the White House tapes as having recorded nothing worse than the sort of talk that takes place in any family at times of "trouble ... or tragedy." Said he: "I'm telling you about normal human conduct...
...less fortunate of this ill-starred family were King George I who was assassinated in 1913, King Constantino I who was deposed in 1917 for his failure to support the Allies during World War I, and his son, Alexander, who died in 1920 after being bitten by his pet monkey...
Thereafter, however, the film turns almost unbearably dark in tone, as the scientists attempt to stimulate erections and ejaculations electrically, perform mutilating operations in order to study muscle functions, and finally, in its most sickening sequence, briskly and bloodily reduce a living squirrel monkey to a set of microscope slides. The excitement of the researchers rises to almost orgasmic heights in the process, though just what they are doing-other than transforming life into a sliced abstraction-is unclear...
Bourne particularly objects to Primate's lack of explanatory narration. He cites as one of many examples a scene in which a scientist cuts open a heavily anesthetized monkey, injects something into his heart, and then snips off his head, explaining "I'm going to remove the brain." In fact, says Bourne, the scientist was studying the optical nerve system, a project that "might eventually help blind people to see." A voice-over explaining that, he contends, "would make all the difference." Wiseman is adamant in his belief that his films tell the truth without narration. Dr. Bourne...
...letters to Pritchett, Greene said, "one of the major objects of his craft (I speak, of course, of the novelist) is the awakening of sympathy." He demonstrates that same kind of sympathy in Lord Rochester's Monkey but it is overbearing. And as Leon Edel says in his book Literary Biography, "There enters into the process a quality of sympathy with the subject which is neither forbearance nor adulation." Edel describes a certain form of the biographical genre that, in its rejection of chronological order, can "borrow from the methods of the novelist without, however, being fiction." Here again Greene...