A pocos días de haber ingresado a NTR Medios de Comunicación Zacatecas, con el ánimo enaltecido y la sonrisota de Martínez con que algunos de ustedes me conocen, encontré la primera versión cinematográfica de “All the King’s men”. Claro que la disfruté. Oh Dios. Aunque, claro está, la segunda versión, muy reciente, ahonda en mostrar los aspectos oscuros de la novela escrita por Robert Penn Warren.
A este respecto, comparto un fragmento de algo que encontré. Como referencia tengo el nombre BARRON’S BOOK NOTES:
Huey P. Long, known as “The Kingfish,” controlled Louisiana politics for some ten years, until he was assassinated in 1935. He was the law, he was above the law–he ruled with the force of royalty through an effective political machine while serving as governor of the state (1928-31) and U.S. Senator (1931-35). But just as Humpty Dumpty in the nursery rhyme toppled off his perch, so did Robert Penn Warren’s fictionalized Huey Long, Willie Stark in All the King’s Men. Willie sat high on a wall, but had a great fall–and as you read Warren’s novel you will understand why all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Willie together again.
