In 'A Matter of Life and Death,' there's a wonderful doctor, reactionary and tweedy and pipe-smoking, archetypically reassuring - but of course the doctor who smokes a pipe or bites his nails or sucks his thumb, it's a flaw.' 'I absolutely claim the pipe! I think in the book the doctor smokes cigarettes, but I said to Marty, 'Please can we have a pipe?' He and I both love the films from the era of Powell and Pressburger, that feature British actors of a type we don't have any more. I think he'd be drawn to somewhere he could really battle it out on the front line, rather than stay in Oxford or Cambridge as an academic researcher. I said, 'May I make him not an American but someone on a quest? Someone who wants to live at the cutting edge, where it's most difficult?' Doctor Cawley is in the middle of an intense debate about whether to connect to patients by listening, talking and engaging in role-play, as opposed to the people who were traveling 'round the country at the time, performing lobotomies. Speaking to the The Independent, Kingsley explains his choices: The two Marshals, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, find the doctor looking and sounding slightly different from his demeanor on the page: rather than the gaunt, cigarette-smoking American described in the novel, Kingsley's iteration of Cawley has more of an intrepid Sherlock Holmes feel, with an English accent and a smart-looking pipe. Because someone is trying to drive him insane.When Martin Scorsese picked up Laeta Kalogridis' adapted screenplay for ' Shutter Island' (which would release in 2010), Ben Kingsley was cast in the role of the good doctor. Read more he begins to believe that he may never leave Shutter Island. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? And what really goes on in Ward C? The closer Teddy gets to the truth, the more elusive it becomes. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010.

How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? And what really goes on in Ward C? Num Pages: 416 pages.

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