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The Ferryman is a 2023 dystopian fiction novel by Justin Cronin. The protagonist, Proctor Bennett, is a titular "ferryman", responsible for transporting elderly citizens to be reborn. Proctor gradually realizes that his utopian life is not what it seems. The Ferryman is Cronin's first novel since 2016's The City of Mirrors.
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The Ferryman is a 2017 play by Jez Butterworth. Set during The Troubles , it tells the story of the family of a former IRA volunteer, living in their farmhouse in rural County Armagh , Northern Ireland in 1981.
A ferryman is the person who operates a ferry. Ferryman or The Ferryman may also refer to: The Ferryman, an episode of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future; The Ferryman, a 2007 New Zealand film; The Ferryman, a film by Jiajia Zhang; The Ferryman, a 2017 play by Jez Butterworth "The Ferryman" (song), a folk ballad
In the following year, the film version of the novel was released as Siddhartha, starring Shashi Kapoor and directed by Conrad Rooks. Musical compositions based on the novel have included Claude Vivier's symphonic poem, Siddhartha (1976), [10] [11] and Pete Townshend's song "The Ferryman", written for an amateur dramatisation in June 1976.
The National Socialists had changed film inspection standards in 1934 (originally to increase the quality of film production by creating censorship standards) to also cover film awards, and as a result movies would be awarded extra consideration, and lower taxes, if they were deemed state-politically and artistically particularly valuable.
Aristotle mentions in his Meteorologica how Aesop once teased a ferryman by relating to him a myth concerning Charybdis. With one gulp of the sea she brought the mountains to view; islands appeared after the next. The third is yet to come and will dry the sea altogether, thus depriving the ferryman of his livelihood. [1]
Cheats is a 2002 American comedy film about four friends that have been cheating their way through high school, and have to face new challenges to avoid getting caught before going to college. The lead roles are played by Trevor Fehrman , Matthew Lawrence , and Mary Tyler Moore .