From: mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.prisoner
Subject: MCGOOHAN INTERVIEW    6/9
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:27:00 GMT
Reply-To: mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson)
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 McGoohan: Yeah.

 Third Boy: I understand, in reading a little about you, that you're a
           very religious man, and my question pertains to "Fall Out."
           I have interpreted a lot of the acts as being...having this
           content. I'm thinking specifically of the crucifixion of the
           two rebels, of when their arms are drawn apart, the
           temptation of No. 6 by the President of the Village, of the
           temptation of Christ...

 McGoohan: They give him the throne.

 Third Boy: "Drybones," all of that. First of all, would you agree with
           my idea that that is intentional? That it is...

 McGoohan: Ah, answering: No, I had never any religious inspiration for
           that whatsoever. I was just trying to make it dramatically
           feasible. Certainly the temptation with the guy putting me
           up on the throne and all this stuff, ah...it's Lucifer time.
           But I never thought at that moment. Maybe somewhere in the
           back of my mind it was there, "And the hip bone's connected
           to the thigh bone" thing. I just thought it was a very good
           song for the situation and also was applicable to the young
           man because, as you know, it's easy for us to go astray in
           youth and he was astray and he's trying to get everything
           together again.

 Third Boy: When I speak of religion, I mean a moral attitude towards
           life.

 McGoohan: I would think that's necessary, yeah.

 Third Boy: OK, then, is it fair to say that No. 6 draws upon that? Is
           that the source of his defense? Is that how he gets up in
           the morning and faces another day in the Village?

 McGoohan: I think that's a very good comment and I think that's
           probably true, yeah...moral force which says, "I have a
           spirit of my own, a soul of my own and it's not all my own
           because it's joined with a greater force beyond me." I don't
           think he got up every morning and analyzed it to that
           extent, but I think that that force is within him and anyone
           who is able to fight in that individual way.

 Third Boy: Would you say that there is a distinct lack in the rest of
           the villagers? Are they soulless beings?

 McGoohan: Ah, the majority of them have been sort of brain- washed.
           Their souls have been brainwashed out of them. Watching too
           many commercials is what happened to them.

 Troyer: I used to think that television commercials were spiritually
           healthy because they made us skeptical and that that was
           probably a very good thing to learn very early on.

 McGoohan: Well, they don't make enough people skeptical because if
           they made enough people skeptical, the people who were made
           skeptical wouldn't be buying all the junk that they're
           advertising and then they'd be out of business.

 Fourth Boy: There's one sequence you do with Leo McKern where he says,
           "I'll kill you." You say, "I'll die," and he says, "You're
           dead." Is that a figure of speech or was there an underlying
           thing happening there?

 McGoohan: Now you're talking about 'Once Upon A Time'?

 Fourth Boy: Yeah, 'Once Upon a Time'.

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