“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s, but behind all of them there’s only one truth and that is that there’s no truth ….no truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is the place to be? No place”
Hazel Motes preaches for the Church Without Christ in the novel Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
One of John Huston’s most underrated and gobsmacking films……
Agreed – one of those rare movies that does justice to an incredible novel. Huston’s adpatation of Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ was equally masterful.
Agreed again: I will never forget either the song, or the last two minutes
in fact while we’re about it, what is it that made him so able to interpret literary works, especially later in his life,( especially for me “The Man Who Would Be King”) and make the film, each time, cleave so absolutely to the book and not to Huston’s ‘style’, which of course he so wisely refused to have one of?