“You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.” FirstsWholeFilmActorsGamesHurtAnimalBoysPrinciplesBreakAudienceDogIllusionIronicProvocationFunny Game Author:Michael Haneke
“In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.” YearsBookDreamKnownBoysAudienceFansNew YorkCreationAgingComicConventionsTiedComic BookClayVesselBrooklynBack WhenHogInterviewersHoudiniBrooklyn New York Book:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel