6/22/2023 0 Comments The wicker man robin hardy![]() ![]() But both Shaffer and Hardy downplayed the role of the book in plotting their story-Hardy claimed to remember only the enigmatic presence of “the hare.” Indeed, that rabbit is a central player in the narrative, in fact it’s omnipresent in candy shops, children’s drawings, and, as it happens, graveyards. Shaffer based his screenplay on David Pinner’s Rituals, a 1967 novel about a puritanical police officer’s search for a missing Cornish child. The title card reads “Anthony Shaffer’s The Wicker Man“, suggesting that the famed playwright was a more than equal partner along alongside Hardy and the film’s producer, Peter Snell. The lonesome hot shot of Forsyth’s film is given a new lease on life but for Howie there’s no such reward-just a whiff of fire and brimstone as his dreams go up in smoke. This tale of magic and metamorphosis isn’t Bill Forsyth’s utopian Local Hero but Robin Hardy’s apocalyptic The Wicker Man, the story of a god-fearing detective named Neil Howie. ![]() While away on assignment in Scotland, a melancholy company man experiences a life-changing, and possibly supernatural, transformation. Starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland ![]()
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