To some enthusiasts of ‘the Prisoner’
Number 6 is a hero, someone to look up to, emulate even. To others he’s the
anti-hero, a disruptive force, always causing trouble, poking his nose in where
it has no business. Refusing to accept, or respond to his number. Refusing to
settle down and join in. He is a rebel! But then who wouldn’t be in his
circumstances? The Prisoner is also a man of violence. He gets into numerous fights
with Guardians, motor mechanics, security guards. Thugs and henchmen, gun
runners, and even with himself! And he is capable of killing, gunning down the
Kid in the street, and on a more destructive level he kills Professor Schnipps,
The Girl and all the French Marshals by blowing up the rocket. But then the
Kid didn’t really exist, he was simply in the mind of the Prisoner, as
much as Professor Shnipps and his daughter were. And yet the armed security
guards in ‘Fall out’ were real enough, and he killed them indiscriminately
during a vicious fire fight.
Some people might try to emulate the
Prisoner to some degree. But for myself the closest I got to emulating the
Prisoner, was to portray him in a number of re-enactments at ‘the Prisoner’ conventions
held at Portmeirion, which I had the privilege of doing several times in the
past. However I did resign from two different jobs at one time or another, and
I’ve been rebellious, asked questions. Tried to bring democracy to a certain society. But
I cannot truly say that I was trying to emulate the Prisoner on those
occasions.
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