Final Sacrifice

(Troy is looking up at the temple)
Mike: Audrey Hepburn? No, it’s just Troy.

Troy, unfortunately for whoever played him, looks like Audrey Hepburn. Not because Audrey Hepburn is ugly (not at all), but because, well, Troy is a boy and boys generally shouldn’t look like waif-ish women. Audrey Hepburn is considered one of the greatest actresses of all time—up there with Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, and Bette Davis. And nowadays I’m inclined to agree with them; she certainly had a kind of charm about her. She was the star of every genre of film: Sabrina, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Green Mansions, Robin and Marion, Charade, and (probably my favorite of hers) My Fair Lady being the best among her films. She won an Oscar—for Roman Holiday—and she’s always at the top of Best Actresses lists. Little bit of irony: Audrey Hepburn beat Julie Andrews out for the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, which created a kind of controversy, since Andrews popularized the role on Broadway. Warner Bros. needed a big name for their film. Andrews took up Mary Poppins instead, and won an Oscar for it, while Hepburn was snubbed by the Academy. Garn.


(Troy is curled up in the back of the truck)
Servo: He’s the Tin Drum kid.

The Tin Drum is a German film (based on a German book) about a little German boy who refuses to grow up, so he beats nonstop on his little German drum and somehow manages to not grow up. He stays a little boy forever, at least until he decides to grow up. All this takes place during World War II, by the way. This may sound like a delightful children’s film but it actually is not. Far from it—it was briefly banned in the US in 1997 after it was considered “child pornography”. The little German boy has German sex with a German girl. I myself can’t opine on whether or not it’s child pornography because I never saw it, although I did read the book. This film naturally became rather controversial, since the movie won an Academy award for Best Foreign Film. Wonder how Servo knew about it. The perv. (Kidding! Kidding! No angry letters!)