![]() ![]() No less than Fowles himself wrote the screenplay, and good, compelling actors like Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine, Julian Glover, and Anna Karina star. ![]() It’s certainly not for a lack of trying on the part of the movie’s producers. It’s unfortunate…but no one will ever feel this compulsion to share the movie version of The Magus. To test them to see if the other person “got” the book, if they understood it the way the giver received the novel. It was one of those works of fiction that instilled in its readers an intense, emotional, personal connection, and compelled them to share that experience with someone else. That’s the kind of book The Magus is (…or was: it can’t still be something people read now, is it?). Back in college, a buddy gave me John Fowles’ novel, The Magus, as a birthday gift, with the express purpose of seeing if I saw what he saw in it. ![]()
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