*****  For what it's worth, the whether the "tall soldier" is supposed
to be a christ figure is an on-going controversy about the novel, based
on the interpretation of the word "wafer" in the closing sentence of
the relevant chapter.  Though it's used to describe the sun, it has
obvious religious connotations but was also a contemporary legal term
for what we call a seal.  (Crane had spent time around law offices; his
brother-in-law or somebody was a lawyer.)  So it's not an addition
necessarily of the filmmakers.
 
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>To my last post, I remembered that I should also mention Christ
figures
>in adaptations of literary works:
>Jeremy Cruncher, the "resurrection man" in A TALE OF TWO CITIES
>Casey, in THE GRAPES OF WRATH
>the tall soldier in THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
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>among others
>
>Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
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