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Article: Michael Collins.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- November 4, 1996
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It would be no exaggeration to say that Neil Jordan has spent his career getting ready for Michael Collins. As father of the Irish Republican Army, Collins cast his shadow on both Danny Boy and The Crying Game. Perhaps he was metaphorically present as well in Interview With the Vampire--another of Jordan's films about a secretive, sly and bloody group, whose actions are at once liberating and guilt-inducing. At a stretch, I might even discover Collins, disguised, in The Company of Wolves--Jordan's variations on the theme of "Little Red Riding Hood," in which, once again, the seducer looks smooth on the outside and is savage within, and brings in his wake a death-dealing ...
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