Word: obsessionals
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Scott and the screenwriter, Gerald Vaughan-Hughes, hold closely to a short story by Joseph Conrad called The Duel. Conrad was fascinated by obsession, by the kind of craziness carried so far beyond the reasonable delusions of ordinary men that it acquires a kind of grandeur. In The Duellists a...
The last bit of rancid emotion should have been drained away. But this is a Conrad tale, and obsession rules. The rigid set of Feraud's shoulders tells the absurd, almost admirable truth: he is just as mad as ever.
If man sees the weather differently according to his circumstance, healthy fear works at the hub of his obsession with it. Facing the awesome grandeur and cruel humors of the weather, ancient man was forced to attribute the mysterious cosmic moil to deities. Wishing desperately to better his odds against...
As Humphrey developed his legislative skills, as he changed from one of the least popular members of Congress to one of the most popular, he became a logical contender for the presidency. It became for him, as for others, a near obsession. In 1960 he figured he had a chance...
Thus began a bizarre story that might conceivably have been offered as a script proposal to, say, Columbia Pictures. But the plot and the principal characters were real. The actor featured in the opening scene was Cliff Robertson (Obsession). His puzzlement over the unreceived $10,000 check led to the...