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Guy Grand (Sellers in the movie) is an eccentric billionaire who spends most of his time playing elaborate practical jokes on people. A big spender, he does not mind losing large sums of money to complete strangers if only he can have a good laugh. All his escapades are designed to prove his theory that everyone has got their price - it just depends on the amount one is prepared to pay them. Episodic in character, The Magic Christian is an unrelenting satire on capitalism and human greed.
In one case, Guy Grand pays an actor playing a surgeon in a live television soap opera to deviate from the script, comment in drastic terms on the bad quality of the show, and walk off the set. In another episode, he secretly buys a respectable New York advertising agency, installs a pygmy as its president and has him "scurry about the offices like a squirrel and chatter raucously in his native tongue" in front of all the top executive staff and their prominent clients. In a third, he buys a cosmetics company and launches a big promotional campaign for a new shampoo which, as it turns out in the end, has a very detrimental effect on those who happen to use it. He also shows up at a safari in Africa with three natives carrying a howitzer. Grand's final adventure takes place on board the S.S. Magic Christian.
McGrath's film adaptation differs considerably from Southern's novel. Relocated to 60s London, it also introduces an orphan (Starr) whom Grand picks up in a park and whom, on a whim, he decides to adopt. The movie is usually remembered for its soundtrackGenerally speaking, the term soundtrack refers to the recorded sound in a motion picture. In terms of film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. The term soundtrack is also commonly used to refer to by BadfingerBadfinger was a British band from the 1960s and 70s. Their meteoric rise and tragic demise became a cautionary tale for the rock music industry. Once widely touted as the heir apparent to the Beatles, Badfinger is now seldom remembered outside their nativ, a British rock bandRock band (or rock group is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specialising in a particular form of electronically amplified music. Deriving its name from the musical style which was its immediate progenitor, rock and roll, the type of music promoted by Paul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born June 18, 1942), much better known simply as Paul McCartney is a British musician, composer and producer. He was born at Walton Hospital, located in northern Liverpool near his teenage home, where his mother had worked a. McCartney also wrote "Come and Get It", the film's most popular song whose lyrics refer to Guy Grand's schemes of handing out money to strangers if they do as he pleases ("If you want it, here it is, come and get it").
Magic Christian
Magic Christian
