Saki, The Storyteller Extraordinaire
Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story. He was born in Burma on December 18, 1870. He was killed in action in France, November 14, 1916, during World War I.
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"Muddy Up to the Eyes"
Why change the relationship of the men in the film?
The mud of the Great War was the remnants of human beings and of murdered nature, the by-product of modern industrial warfare fought on a scale that had never before been thought possible. It is not the same mud we know of today. The trenches of the Western Front were always “muddy”, even when it was dry.
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