I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.
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To me, it was fun, ... To them, it was a life-and-death career thing.
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There was a little bit of tittering when the young boys were in bed, partly because they were such beautiful kids. But of course, brothers have slept together in beds for hundreds of years.
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I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality.
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