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THRILLED TO DEATH.(Critical Essay)

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In the second half of the Graham Greene-Carol Reed classic "The Third Man" (1949), the blundering, well-meaning American Joseph Cotten finally confronts his dazzling friend Orson Welles, who has been selling watered-down penicillin to hospitals in postwar Vienna. High up in an enormous Ferris wheel, Cotten asks Welles if he has ever faced one of his victims. Welles responds:

Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to eat my ...

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