Reply #7: No, more like Tartuffe

[alfredo]

Tartuffe the imposter and Being There are mirror images. Read the play, then see the movie. Jerzy took the play and turned it on its head.

read this page:
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc35w1.html

ORGON, a well-to-do Parisian householder, has been so deceived by the hypocritical cant of a poor beggar named Tartuffe, that he has made the latter an honored guest in his household. In no time at all Tartuffe has made himself practically master of the house and the doings of its occupants. Orgon, far from being incensed, ascribes this to Tartuffe's unselfish interest in his, Orgon's, welfare. He is on the point, in fact, of repudiating his promise to young Valère that he shall marry Orgon's daughter, Marianne, in order that her hand and her dower may go to Tartuffe and attach him permanently to the family.



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