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German director Volker Schlöndorff ( The Tin Drum ) tries his hand at film noir, but most critics say he should stick to "adapting serious literary works" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). They complain that his film--about an ex-con (Woody Harrelson) who falls for the wife (Elisabeth Shue) of a dying millionaire--overdoes the shadowy lighting and complicated plot twists of the genre.
Hollywood has Father Christmas dying ( The Santa Clause ), killing ( Silent Night, Deadly Night ), and being kidnapped ( The Nightmare Before Christmas ). On television, this season's two most visible Santa ads portray him as an old lech (Victoria's Secret) and a clumsy oaf (Home Depot).
One possible explanation is that they may be recognized as surface structures on cytoplasmic organelles that are released to the immune system in aberrant disease states associated with unregulated cell death (apoptosis or necrosis) resulting from injury or infection, or defective clearance of dying cells.
That telegram is omitted from the script, which has Schultz dying immediately after being shot.
A patriarch is dying.