Stephen Marino
Lit and Writing/ Hughes
10/10/05
This film must be made so the people of the next generation can hear what Voltaire has to say. They must realize this book was a great work. In my eyes this book depicted things I’ve never heard or could believe. I want to make the images that this book made me visualize in my head come a reality. Once you read the chapter on the Bulgarian’s brutal attack on Candide and the chapter on the Old Woman’s Story, you would be very interested in seeing this movie.
In the scene where Candide is captured by Bulgarian soldiers and is sentenced to death by ten bullets to the brain or sixty floggings by the entire regime, Candide chooses flogging. Since he chose to be flogged, you can just picture this scene where his arms and legs to a stationary object bind Candide and the entire army is lined up to give him floggings. To me this event in the book should be reproduced into a visual medium. The motion and movement of it will just extend......
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