“But there are a lot of people out there who only know about the film; they haven’t actually seen it. They know that it was an Oscar-winning film, an important film, a great film. But it was 50 years ago. It’s still a basic story. It’s about what we all go through, from idealism to cynicism to a combination of the two and then tragedy at the end.”
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