![]() ![]() ![]() The film’s central relationship between Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor) and Major Weldon (Marlon Brando) serves to epitomise the rebounding pressures at hand. In Reflections in a Golden Eye, based on the 1941 novel by Carson McCullers, fates intertwine on an isolated army base surrounded by forest in a mythological version of the American deep south. The bleached white desert of The Misfits (1961) spells out the drying well of a thousand broken hearts, whereas the wet heat of The Night of the Iguana (1964) signals and inspires unchecked temptation for one Catholic priest. ![]() The environment, more than just the locale of unfolding dramatics, seems to leech itself onto the hearts and souls of the characters. Infused with an almost classical reverence for romanticism, the unfolding emotions and narratives at the heart of John Huston’s work always seemed tied intimately to their settings. ![]()
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