Squires, John (18 October 2021). " 'The Collector': John Fowles' Novel Gets a Stunning Limited Edition Release from Suntup Editions". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved 19 October 2021. Well I’m talking more or less about the middle-class English. No I mean games-playing much more in the Stephen Potter sense, the way that most middle-class conversation…people are really not exactly scoring points, but English people are I think chary of saying what they really feel and they really mean. This I mean … The screenplay was written by Stanley Mann and John Kohn, based on the novel by John Fowles. However, Terry Southern contributed an uncredited script revision for Wyler after the producers became unhappy with the book's original darker ending; they wanted Miranda to escape. Southern's "happier" ending was rejected by Wyler. I mean there is a very general boring sort of run, isn’t there, that the novel is dead because of television, the cinema and so on …? For many years I have felt in exile from English society, perhaps particularly English middle class society. I’ve never felt an exile from England itself, from its climate, its countryside, its cities, its past, its art, but yes, yes, I do feel in exile. I think this is a good thing for a novelist. If a novelist isn’t in exile I suspect he’d be in trouble.

Absolutely, what a nice way of saying it. This is what I hate about modern Oxford, you know. I mean the pressure on you to achieve destroys the great value of the Oxford and Cambridge system…the drifting, the not knowing where you were going. It’s not what humanism is about. No, I tell you what I find terrible is the association between avant garde art and a certain branch of the New Left. You know, that iconoclastic experimental art must automatically be left wing. This is for me one of the great illusions of the age. I don’t see how it can be, you know, because it is, however anti-establishment it may be, it is fundamentally highly élitist. It’s hermetic, and it’s just like all those late nineteenth century movements, symbolism and the rest. Miranda's imprisonment in Clegg's basement is experienced differently by the two main characters. As the captor and jailer, Clegg can play into his instincts as a collector. He does not want to kill Miranda, but subconsciously wants to kill any part of her that could resist him. Clegg hopes that his prison will accomplish just this, that Miranda will succumb to his power, fall in love with him, and let him dictate the terms of the rest of her life. The Collector was John Fowles’ first novel. It was made into a film in which Terence Stamp played the young man whose obsession for collecting butterflies was accompanied by an obsession to collect and make a captive of a young girl from Hampstead. Hampstead is the place John Fowles was living in at the time. The most commercially successful of Fowles’ novels, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, appeared in 1969. It resembles a Victorian novel in structure and detail, while pushing the traditional boundaries of narrative in a very modern manner. Winner of several awards and made into a well-received film starring Meryl Streep in the title role, it is the book that today’s casual readers seem to most associate with Fowles.

Philip Kopper of The Washington Post called it "a fantastic film" that he thought was stronger than the novel because Wyler "removed many of the redundancies and collateral elements." [24] Writing for The Courier-Journal, William Mootz praised the film for its "atmosphere of oppressive tension" and an "anguishing excursion into horror fiction." [25]

Fowles explores the psychological ramifications of these control tactics by examining both Clegg and Miranda. At times, control makes Clegg drunk with power, unable to handle his own urges; for instance, he undresses Miranda after chloroforming her the second time and photographs her in his underwear. Later, he will use force to make her pose for him naked. Clegg's control of Miranda is psychologically damaging to her, and every day she tries out a different strategy in an attempt to unseat his control, and also to figure out how best to win his sympathies. His control over her makes her determined to fight for new privileges and emerge as a better person. In the end, of course, Clegg's controlling ways claim her life. Festival de Cannes: The Collector". Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013.

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In the United States, Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment first released The Collector on VHS in 1980. [37] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment issued a DVD on October 9, 2002. [38] A Blu-ray was subsequently released by Image Entertainment in 2011. [39] On September 24, 2018, the United Kingdom-based Powerhouse Films released a region-free Blu-ray in their limited edition Indicator series; this edition features numerous interviews and archival material as bonus features. [40] This marked the film's first availability on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom. [40] Inspiration for crimes [ edit ] Scott, Vernon (May 31, 1964). "Wyler Only 'Prima Donna' At Columbia". The San Bernardino County Sun. San Bernardino, California. p.51 – via Newspapers.com.