***** 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. Lang Thompson http://members.aol.com/wlt4/index.htm In <[log in to unmask]> Donald Larsson <[log in to unmask]> writes: > >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 > >among others > >Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) > >---- >To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L >in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]