Robin and Petr

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Robin and Petr Visit William Higgins

By William Higgins

I got the idea for the Purification Scene one day while riding the tram back from the super-market. Riding in the tram's apse, at the very rear, was a young guy holding lantern containing a burning candle. He set my fantasies running amok. He must be heading somewhere special with that lantern. I wish I knew. Very quickly I dreamed up the Purification Scene. It took months to import the Monk's habit. I had the Opus Dei 'discipline' (whip) built to scale. Then I went to Prague's Catholic store. They had over a thousand rosaries on sale. Immediately, I spotted the largest, blingy one. I pointed it out to the little old ladies who ran the place. At first they thought I was pointing to smaller, more modest rosaries. After a couple of attempts, I directed their attention to the huge one. They kind of looked like, 'are we finally going to sell this thing?' Later, I realized that lots of young guys wear gaudy rosaries purely as jewelry, but not quite that big. Now, I was ready to shoot the scene. The first young lad absolutely agreed to bottom. It became apparent this was clearly a ruse. On the day, he tried every manipulation to switch his roll from catcher to pitcher. With any other script, it might have worked, but not this script. So, half way through the shoot, the scene had to be scrapped. The next day, recast, we shot the scene without hitch. However, on the 'B Roll' Miro said the tram was so crowded, there was no space for the young guy to stand in the asp at the back. Skoda.