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...Candy-coated tidbits found in The Magic Christian, a thoroughly unpalatable adaptation of Terry Southern's 1960 novel. The book, an episodic account of a billionaire's lifelong devotion to "making it hot for people," made at least a reasonably funny prep-school primer. The film (whose script Southern helped write) purports to give upper-middle-class shibboleths a jolly beating. Instead, it is just another flagging satire, with ludicrous overtones of homosexual lubricity...
...tonight, the two squads meet again on a road show at Watson Rink, and it is highly probable that the script will be drastically revised...
...have to work on it. You just believe. HENRY: It is easier to grow in the theater than it is in films, because you have more time to let it grow. You rehearse for four weeks-I call it "baby up on a part." When the script is out of your hands, you can begin to put the breath and the blood into the character. I don't think of myself as the character. I think of the guy that the playwright wrote...
...spiritually and morally destructive nature of their motives. The elimination of the Maguires required a treachery born of a craving for money and power, the guilt steeped motives of twentieth-century capitalism. The "relevance" of this film has been denounced as an effort towards topicality- but the original script was in fact written over twenty-five years...
Fortunately, the general is enacted by George C. Scott, who can sense a character in a gross script the way a sculptor can detect a man in a block of marble. Beneath the pompous strutting, Scott understands, was a shrewd playwright who devised and played a public character for his troops. The trouble was that after Patton persuaded his audience, he took in himself; the author and his persona became inseparable. Scott shows that strange, mad process and demonstrates how courage could become, in time, suicidal. General Patton is too complex a period piece to be seen by the film...