And if you survive all this, it s reassuring to know that a man who trod on a cobra yesterday, died almost instantly . His fear of the island s wildlife resurfaced later on when he described other non-human hazards, including a plague of frogs, agile creatures that hide in the toilet and when disturbed hop unnervingly out of the bowl at you. Strong men have been known to rush off shrieking into the night. It s a good thing he didn t come across a centipede in the bidet, or a tith polanga in the shower. Hall quoted Dimitri de Grunwald as saying, They don t make films like this any more.
Every country has one great story to tell.
This is Sri Lanka s. We ve simply got to put on a bigger show than TV to entice people back into the cinema. TV can afford failures. The God King certainly tried hard to be part of the bigger show that Dimitri wanted to create. Take the final battle scene, which was filmed at the Mahakandarawa tank, Mihintale.