"Marlon Brando), based on Conrad's character, who has gone rogue far up a river, deep in the Southeast Asian jungle. The script acknowledges ""Heart of Darkness"" as a source of information, and the last words of Colonel Kurtz, ""The horror! The horror!"", echo those of his namesake in the novel. In the mostly poorly received 1994 TNT version of the story directed by Nicolas Roeg, Kurtz, who has gone insane and is now doing the most horrible and blasphemous deeds, was portrayed by John Malkovich. The video game """" (2010) features a character in many ways similar to Kurtz; a"
"from Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"" or from the character Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's ""Heart of Darkness"" who is referred to as a ""hollow sham"" and ""hollow at the core"". The two epigraphs to the poem, """"Mistah Kurtz – he dead"""" and """"A penny for the Old Guy"""", are allusions to Conrad's character and to Guy Fawkes, attempted arsonist of the English house of Parliament, and his straw-man effigy that is burned each year in the United Kingdom on Guy Fawkes Night, November 5. Eliot’s title, “The Hollow Men”, obliquely acknowledges the bonfires which accompany the celebration of All Hallows’ Eve, falling"
"before Colonel Kurtz dies, he recites part of T. S. Eliot's poem ""The Hollow Men"". The poem is preceded in printed editions by the epigraph ""Mistah Kurtz – he dead"", a quotation from Conrad's ""Heart of Darkness"". Two books seen opened on Kurtz's desk in the film are ""From Ritual to Romance"" by Jessie Weston and ""The Golden Bough"" by Sir James Frazer, the two books that Eliot cited as the chief sources and inspiration for his poem ""The Waste Land"". Eliot's original epigraph for ""The Waste Land"" was this passage from ""Heart of Darkness"", which ends with Kurtz's final"
"never read, in the houseboat where Brando was staying at the time. Brando returned to filming with his head shaved, wanting to be ""Kurtz"" once again; claiming it was all clear to him now that he had read Conrad's novella. Still photographs of Brando in character as Major Penderton, in the film ""Reflections in a Golden Eye"" (1967), were used later by the producers of ""Apocalypse Now"", who needed photos of a younger Brando to appear in the service record of the younger Colonel Walter Kurtz. Colonel Kurtz Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, portrayed by Marlon Brando, is a fictional character"
"include ""Mrs. Mesaroz"", ""Hetty Bakes a Cake"", ""What Now?"", ""What Became of the Witch"", ""Once a Catholic"", ""The Arab-Israeli Cookbook"" and ""The Grandfathers"". In 1984, Swartz played Herbert Jamison in an episode of """", a miniseries that won a Writers Guild of America Award. In 1986, he appeared in ""The Last Days of Patton"", an American made-for-TV movie; in 1996, he appeared in ""Over Here"", a British made-for-TV movie. He also appeared in 25 episodes of the documentary series ""I Shouldn't Be Alive"" (2010–2012), as the character Dan Mazur. Swartz played the lead role of Cutter in the cyberpunk, full-motion"
"was appointed an MBE. Australian Broadcasting Corporation presenter Ramona Koval described Cartwright's novels as being ""based in contemporary settings but he’s able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us"". Three of Cartwright's early novels feature a character named Timothy Curtiz, named partly for Kurtz from Joseph Conrad's ""Heart of Darkness"", and partly for Cartwright's own brother. In ""Interior"", Curtiz is in Africa investigating the disappearance of his father in 1959 while on a trip for ""National Geographic"". In ""Look At It This Way"", Curtiz is a columnist for ""Manhattan"" magazine while he is living in London, has"
"of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa. There have been many proposed sources for the character of the antagonist, Kurtz. Georges-Antoine Klein, an agent who became ill and later died aboard Conrad's steamer, has been identified by scholars and literary critics as one basis for Kurtz. The principal figures involved in the disastrous ""rear column"" of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition have also been identified as likely sources, including column leader Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, slave trader Tippu Tip and the expedition's overall leader, Welsh explorer Henry Morton Stanley. Adam Hochschild, in ""King Leopold's Ghost"", believes that"
"Aaron Swartz (actor) Aaron Swartz is a British actor and theatre and film director who has appeared in plays, movies, commercials and television series in the United States and Europe. His first film appearance was in ""The Lords of Discipline"", a 1983 film adaptation of the Pat Conroy novel; Swartz played a senior at an American military academy. In 1994, he played Cutter, the lead role in the video game """". He appeared in 25 episodes of the documentary series ""I Shouldn't Be Alive"" (2010–2012) and has directed two films that were sold to the BBC. He stars in the"
"2000. The film was released in the US by Kino Lorber as part of the box set ""Lubitsch in Berlin"" in 2007 with English intertitles. It was also released in the UK by Eureka's Masters of Cinema series as part of the box set ""Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex Comedies"" in 2010 with German intertitles and English subtitles. The Wild Cat (1921 film) The Wild Cat (aka The Mountain Cat, ), subtitled A Grotesque in Four Acts, is a 1921 German silent, farcical romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra premiered"
"praised him for his ""towering performance"" as real-life Gisborne speed chess player and coach Genesis Potini, who died in 2011. Curtis studied chess and deliberately put on weight for the role. Curtis has appeared in the films Martin Scorsese's ""Bringing Out the Dead"" (1999), ""Three Kings"" (1999), the drug drama ""Blow"" (2001) with Johnny Depp, ""Training Day"" (2001), ""Collateral Damage"" (2002), ""Live Free or Die Hard"" (2007), ""Sunshine"" (2007), ""Push"" (2009), and ""Colombiana"" (2011). In M. Night Shyamalan's ""The Last Airbender"" (2010), he played the main villain, Fire Lord Ozai. Curtis portrayed Lt. Cortez in the film ""Last Knights"" (2015)"
"Kaput and Zösky. Towards the end of her appearance, she advised the two to leave before lawyers came to ""instigate precedings on work-equipment deterioration and attempted intimidation"". The Office Lady is voiced by Helen King. ""The Great Ghandizen"" - The Great Ghandizen is a squat, little ruler with an arsenal of crushing devices with which to crush offenders. He made a massive amount of contributions to his planet and is long lived, being about 600 years old. The Great Ghandizen is voiced by John Stocker. ""Marvin the Enchanter"" - Marvin is a bird-like, bespectacled wizard with a white beard famed"
"worshipped as a god by his underlings; in Caesar's case, his followers believe him to be the reincarnation of Mars, the Roman god of war. The video game """" (2012), another modernized loose adaptation of ""Heart of Darkness"" (set in a ruined Dubai), has a similar Kurtz figure named Colonel John Konrad. Timothy Findley's novel ""Headhunter"" (1993) features Kurtz's escape from ""Heart of Darkness"" and subsequent reign of terror over the city of Toronto as the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Parkin Institute. The poem ""The Hollow Men"" by T.S. Eliot starts off with the line ""Mistah Kurtz - He Dead."" In"
"Christoph Waltz Christoph Waltz (; born 4 October 1956) is a German-Austrian actor and director. He is widely known for his works with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving critical acclaim for portraying SS officer Hans Landa in ""Inglourious Basterds"" (2009) and bounty hunter King Schultz in ""Django Unchained"" (2012). For both performances, he earned an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Waltz also received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Landa. Waltz portrayed computer genius Qohen Leth in the science fiction"
"is the pilot of a river boat sent to collect ivory from Kurtz's outpost, only gradually becoming infatuated with Kurtz. In fact, when he discovers Kurtz in terrible health, Marlow makes an effort to bring him home safely. In the film, Willard is an assassin dispatched to kill Kurtz. Nevertheless, the depiction of Kurtz as a god-like leader of a tribe of natives and his malarial fever, Kurtz's written exclamation ""Exterminate all the brutes!"" (which appears in the film as ""Drop the bomb. Exterminate them all!"") and his last words ""The horror! The horror!"" are taken from Conrad's novella. Coppola"
"the notes to his poem, ""The Waste Land"". The book appears in the film ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979), among those kept by the character, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, along with ""The Golden Bough"". The book appears in the limited series ""Batman: Tenses"", in which it is thrown in a fire by Ted Krosby before he kills his father. The book also appears in the Oliver Stone film ""The Doors"". From Ritual to Romance From Ritual to Romance is a 1920 book written by Jessie L. Weston. Weston's book is an examination of the roots of the King"
"Captain Klutz Captain Klutz is a comic strip character created in 1967 by Don Martin. He is a parody of superhero characters. The character originally saw print in a series of original paperback books done for the ""Mad"" magazine paperback line, not the magazine itself. Ringo Fonebone was a hopelessly inept boy. He was utterly absorbed in reading comic books, to the point that he was kicked out of his parents' house, as well as a vocational school he tried to attend and a flophouse (the last expulsion left him in nothing but a set of red long johns and"
"an imperialist in the best tradition of the ""white man's burden"". The reader is introduced to a painting of Kurtz's, depicting a blindfolded woman bearing a torch against a nearly black background, and clearly symbolic of his former views. Kurtz is also the author of a pamphlet regarding the civilization of the natives. The presence of his admirer, the Russian ""Harlequin"", and what he reveals about Kurtz in his adulatory descriptions of him raises questions about Kurtz's actual beliefs and the sincerity of his progressive views. However, over the course of his stay in Africa, Kurtz becomes corrupted. He takes"
"another recurring ally, an American gangster named Hoppy Uniatz, an old friend and accomplice of Templar's from their adventures in New York. Another character in the book is Detective Carn, a police officer posing in Baycombe as a professor and who also is in pursuit of the Tiger and his minions (dubbed Tiger Cubs). Carn and Templar form an uneasy alliance, and the character appears to be a template for the later character of Inspector Claud Eustace Teal, who would become a recurring ally/adversary of Templar's in later Saint adventures after making his debut in the 1929 non-Saint novel ""Daredevil""."
"the exorbitant demands she makes of their ruler. Having finally persuaded the Duke to sign the treaty with Britain, her plans to escape from the Duchy are wrecked when Napoleon invades and captures Stuttgart. Forced to appear in a command performance for the Emperor, she is eventually able to cross the border in the company of the Duke's aide. Invitation to the Waltz (film) Invitation to the Waltz is a 1935 British historical musical film directed by Paul Merzbach and starring Lilian Harvey, Wendy Toye and Carl Esmond. It was based on a play by Eric Maschwitz. It was made"
"novella, based on Conrad's experience as a steamboat captain in Africa, is set in the Congo Free State during the 19th century. Kurtz and Marlow (whose corresponding character in the movie is Capt. Willard) work for a Belgian trading company that brutally exploits its native African workers. After arriving at Kurtz's outpost, Marlow concludes that Kurtz has gone insane and is lording over a small tribe as a god. The novella ends with Kurtz dying on the trip back and the narrator musing about the darkness of the human psyche: ""the heart of an immense darkness"". In the novella, Marlow"
"Koontz's first No. 1 hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list. ""Midnight"" includes a mixture of two classic plots- the great 50's film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the classic H.G. Wells tale, The Island of Dr. Moreau. And, indeed, Koontz cleverly mentions both of these later in the novel. The book opens with four separate stories that quickly weave themselves together and become different viewpoints of one overarching plot. First: Janice Capshaw, a nighttime jogger, is pursued and then killed by a pack of mysterious and nightmarish beasts while she is jogging along the beaches of a"
"is a Lou Reed devotee. ""The Man With a Load of Mischief"", ""Help the Poor Struggler"" and ""The Deer Leap"" were filmed for German and Austrian television under the titles ""Der Tote im Pub (The Dead Man in the Pub"") (2013), ""Mord im Nebel (Murder in the Fog"") (2015) and ""Inspektor Jury spielt Katz und Maus (Inspector Jury Plays Cat-and-mouse"") (2017). Fritz Karl as Jury, Götz Schubert as Plant and Katharina Thalbach as ""Lady"" Agatha Ardry. Melrose Plant Melrose Plant is a fictional character in Martha Grimes' series of Richard Jury mystery novels. Superintendent Richard Jury is a Scotland Yard"
"Edmund Musgrave Barttelot Edmund Musgrave Barttelot (28 March 1859 – 19 July 1888) was a British Army officer, who became notorious after his allegedly brutal and deranged behaviour during his disastrous command of the rear column left in the Congo during H. M. Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He has often been identified as one of the sources for the character of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novel ""Heart of Darkness"". Born in Sussex, England, he joined the army (7th Royal Fusiliers) in 1879 and served in India. In 1886, he volunteered for Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. As"
"a man of artistic ability. Marlow finds a quotation by Kurtz in which he asserts that whites “must necessarily appear to them in the nature of supernatural beings – we approach them with the might of a deity”, one of a series of suggestions of that Kurtz regards himself elevated to a godlike position. The document is ended with the sentence, handwritten at a later date, “Exterminate all the Brutes!”. This text is the second which Marlow encounters on his journey up the river, the first of which is the Russian Harlequin's book on sailing which he originally mistakes as"
"those was ""The Waltz King"", a loosely adapted biopic of Strauss, which aired as part of the Wonderful World of Disney in the U.S. in 1963. In Mikhail Bulgakov's 1940 (published 1967) novel, ""The Master and Margarita"", Strauss conducts the orchestra during Satan's Great Ball at the invitation of Behemoth. ""A Corny Concerto"" (1943), a Warner Bros cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett with animation by Robert McKimson, features music that was composed by Strauss, and is a parody of Walt Disney's 1940 ""Fantasia"". The cartoon is narrated by Elmer Fudd, parodying Deems Taylor's appearance in ""Fantasia"". The 1950 animated short"
"The English Cat The English Cat (in German, Die englische Katze) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond, based on ' (""The heartbreak of an English cat"") by Honoré de Balzac. The opera was first performed in a German translation by the Stuttgart Opera at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen at the Schwetzingen Festival on 2 June 1983. The French premiere was at the Opéra-Comique, Paris in 1984. The first performance using the original English text was at Santa Fe on 13 July 1985. The UK premiere was at the Leith Theatre,"
"and progress'"", and feels Kurtz represents the ""'higher intelligence, wide sympathies, a singleness of purpose'"" needed for the cause Europe entrusts the Company with (Conrad 39). The man predicts Kurtz will rise in the hierarchy within two years and then makes the connection to Marlow: ""'The same people who sent him specially also recommended you'"" (Conrad 39–40). Marlow is frustrated by the months it takes to perform the necessary repairs, made all the slower by the lack of proper tools and replacement parts at the station. During this time, he learns that Kurtz is far from admired, but more or"
"light to the figures and made their silhouettes and colours visible to the audience through the cloth. Conrad, also known as ""Karaghiosis"", the protagonist of Roger Zelazny's ""...And Call Me Conrad"" (also known as ""This Immortal""), which won the 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel, is partially inspired by this character. In Greek daily speech, the name Karagiozis is also used as an insult more or less like ""clown"". Puppeteers complain about this, saying that while Karagiozis can be violent, mischievous, a liar and an anti-hero, he is also good-natured and faithful, so his name should not be used as"
"trader Captain Charles Marlow (Roth) is sent up the Congo River to retrieve cargo, and along the way, learns of the successful and enigmatic trader Kurtz (Malkovich), who is worshiped as a god by the natives. The series won and was nominated for several awards, including: Furthermore, Malkovich was nominated for both a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1995. Heart of Darkness (1993 film) Heart of Darkness is a 1993 television adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s famous novella written by Benedict Fitzgerald, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De"
"in the ""Harry Potter"" film series, Uncle Monty in ""Withnail and I"" (1987), Dr. Albert Meinheimer in """" (1991), Henry Crabbe in ""Pie in the Sky"" (1994–1997), Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" and King George II in Disney's """" (2011). Earlier in his career, he had a prominent supporting role as British journalist Collins in Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning film ""Gandhi"" (1982). Griffiths was born in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, to Jane (née Denmark) and Thomas Griffiths. His father was a steelworker who also fought in pubs for money, while his mother's occupation was"
"in disguise. The story is thought to be a metaphor for the dislocation and destruction of European Jews. ""St Patrick and the Peddler"" by Margaret Hodges is a novel about a peddler who is visited by St Patrick in his dreams and through a circuitous route uncovers great riches. ""Robin Hood and the Peddler"" is a ballad that now forms part of the collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. The ""Tin Men"" (1987), a feature film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Danny De Vito, is a comedy set in 1963, concerning two aluminium"
"await the arrival of spring and is held on the same night as Saint Walpurgis Night ('). A scene in Goethe's ""Faust Part One"" is called "","" and one in ""Faust Part Two"" is called ""Classical ."" The last chapter of book five in Thomas Mann's ""The Magic Mountain"" is also called ""."" In Edward Albee's 1962 play ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,"" Act Two is entitled ""."" From Bram Stoker's short story, ""Dracula's Guest"", an Englishman (whose name is never mentioned) is on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of"
"one of the best characters I've ever written and ever will write, and Christoph played it to a tee. It's true that if I couldn't have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made ""Inglourious Basterds"""". Waltz played gangster Benjamin Chudnofsky in ""The Green Hornet"" (2011); that same year, he starred in ""Water for Elephants"" and Roman Polanski's ""Carnage"". He played German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Quentin Tarantino's ""Django Unchained"" (2012), a role Tarantino wrote specifically for Waltz. During a training accident prior to filming, Waltz injured his pelvis. His role garnered him acclaim once"