... remaining the same. With "The Mousetrap" we see Hawke's film student Hamlet as the American auteur, consuming and altering many other sources to create a new product (much like much other American culture and this film in particular.) This Hamlet is typically American, grounded thoroughly in the culture and aesthetic of that nation (dressed in the wardrobe of the early to mid-nineties grunge music movement ) and influenced by its icons. In J.D.Salinger's classic novel, The Catcher In The Rye ... , Holden Caulfield (the novel's hero/ anti-hero) comments on Olivier's Hamlet: "..terrific vo...

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... Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania (1934-1936), which was the source for many of his critical and cynical descriptions of Pency Prep in Catcher in the Rye. (He later admitted to having fond feelings for the school, however.) This was where J.D. developed his sarcastic wit, and started writing. He spent five months in Europe in 1937, and returned to attend Ursinus College and New York University in 1938. While attending college, J.D. fell in love with Oona ... of his adamant reclusive behavior, Salinger is slowly killing himself. When Salinger wrote his first novel, The Catcher in th...

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