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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is considered a classic of the political thriller genre. The book has twice been adapted into a feature film of the same title. Forensic linguist John Olsson judged that "There can be no disputing that Richard Condon plagiarized from Robert Graves." Olsson went on to state that "As plagiarists go, Condon is quite creative, he does not confine himself to one source and is prepared to throw other ingredients into the pot." Jonathan Lethem, in his influential essay The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism, has identified "Richard Condon's novels" as part of "cherished texts that become troubling to their admirers after the discovery of their 'plagiarized' elements," which make it "apparent that appropriation, mimicry, quotation, allusion, and sublimated collaboration consist of a kind of sine qua non of the creative act, cutting across all forms and genres in the realm of cultural production." Film adaptations Silverio noted that several long passages of the novel seemed to be adapted from Robert Graves' 1934 novel I, Claudius. Marco is the first person to reach Shaw's sniper nest, getting there just before Shaw turns the gun on himself and commits suicide. At the convention, Shaw instead shoots and kills his mother and Senator Iselin. Marco reprograms Shaw, although it is unclear until the final pages whether this is successful. Blaming the killing on the Communists will enable Iselin to assume dictatorial powers. He uses the queen of diamonds card to draw out Eleanor's plan: after she obtains the vice presidential nomination for Iselin, Shaw is to shoot the presidential candidate so that Iselin can succeed him.
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#THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 1962 SUMMARY INSTALL#
Married to McCarthy-esque Senator Johnny Iselin, Eleanor has convinced the Communist powers to help install her husband as president and allow them to control the American government through him.īy observing Shaw, Marco discovers the trigger shortly before the national convention of Iselin's political party. Shaw's KGB handler is his domineering mother, Eleanor. Seeing the queen of diamonds playing card transforms him into an assassin who will kill anyone at whom he is directed. In Shaw's case, the suggestion that he play solitaire is the trigger. It is revealed that the Communists have been using Shaw as a sleeper agent who, activated by a post-hypnotic trigger, immediately forgets the assignments he carries out and therefore can never betray the operation either purposely or inadvertently. Senator Jordan and Shaw's mother do not like each other, but Raymond continues to see Jocelyn. Both find love interests: for Marco, it is Rose Cheyney, whom he meets on a train and for Raymond, it is Jocelyn Jordan, the daughter of Senator Thomas Jordan, a neighbor of Shaw's. Marco is arrested, and when Shaw sees that it is his old major they rekindle their old friendship. Marco and the manservant start fighting in Shaw's house and both are bloodied significantly. Major Marco looks up Sergeant Raymond Shaw and discovers that Shaw's new manservant is someone he recognizes from Korea. When Marco learns that another of the platoon's soldiers has been suffering the exact same nightmare, he starts looking into why this is happening. The backdrop with the old ladies changes back and forth between them and Chinese/Soviet intelligence officials. One of the ladies tells Sergeant Shaw to murder two of his platoon comrades. Years after the war, Marco, now back in the United States working as an intelligence officer, begins suffering a recurring nightmare in which the seated platoon members are surrounded by a group of sweet little old ladies who had been a part of their brainwashing. They are taken to Manchuria, and brainwashed into believing Shaw saved their lives in combat – for which Shaw is subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor. Major Bennett Marco, Sergeant Raymond Shaw, and the rest of their infantry platoon are captured by an elite Soviet commando unit during the Korean War in 1952.