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"Having gone through it, and him really believing it was his masterpiece, and having it be doomed, was devastating".
The Rains Came (1939), with Tyrone Power as a raja whose love for an unhappily married Englishwoman (Loy) is doomed, was notable for its Oscar-winning special effects (notably, a climactic earthquake).
The way in which an evening he regarded as doomed was subsequently trimmed and perfected (by co-directors Marianne Elliot and Tom Morris) is one of the aspects of theatre that intrigues and mystifies Morpurgo.
"What was doomed was the attempt to refashion Iraq in a sort of civilizational makeover, using American power in an alliance with a supposedly grateful Iraqi public, led by a Westernized middle class.
Laborde's friend, Jacob-Nicolas Moreau, historiographer of France, who had first warned her "we are doomed," was one of the few people still at their posts as he busily -- and pointlessly -- drafted a pastoral letter from Louis XVI ordering bishops and priests to combat disorder.
I don't know if the notion that people who steal off to have "illicit" sex are doomed was a trope in horror movies before this, but Jaws certainly cemented that horror movie theme.
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