Are you talking to me?: A Life Through the Movies

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John Walsh. Are you talking to me?: A Life Through the Movies

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?

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INTRODUCTION STRAINING YOUR EYES TO SEE

1 THE CAT IN THE CRIMSON SOCK Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

2 FACES AT THE WINDOW The Innocents (1961)

3 JOHN WAYNE’S FILTHY TEMPER Red River (1947)

4 GIRL IN THE GAZEBO The Sound of Music (1965)

5 WHITE HAT AND GOLDEN SHIRT Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

6 DANCING WITH DECADENCE Cabaret (1972)

7 FAR AWAY FROM EVERYTHING The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

8 AFTER THE RED RAINCOAT ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1973)

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A Life Through the Movies

JOHN WALSH

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Counting off the lashes, we took in with our young eyes the blooding and flaying of Mills’s back, the wincing of the more sensitive crew-members, the gloating interventions of Captain Bligh (‘You’re going too soft, Quintal – lay on with a will or you’ll take his place’ – a classic piece of schoolmasterly brinkmanship) and the gradual sinking down of the victim.

Bligh’s mouth twisted in a smile. God I hated him. He reminded me so much of Mr King, the sports master, who always had me in his sadistic sights. Once, when I had weedily underperformed at some football practice, he actually picked me up by the ears and held me dangling in agony. But you didn’t fight back or argue with Mr King. You accepted that he had every right to do horrible things to you, because you were a nasty little boy who was probably in the wrong. All you would say was ‘Flippin’ heck, sir,’ like a Cockney droll, and take your punishment in good heart and not complain. You weren’t allowed to make a fuss, even to answer back, when you were eight, in Wimbledon, in 1962.

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