" She explains why she can""t ell him her wish for the future: "Oh no.If I told you, it might not come true." George asks about her deepest wishes and hen offers her a poetic, imaginative fantasy about lassoing the moon and bringing it down to Earth so that she can eat it - it""s almost a marriage proposal:George: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You-you want the moon? Just say the word and I""ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.The question hat remains for the rest of the film is: Why?Faces of the workers reveal astonishment.The head boy (Tetsu Komai) gazes up into the night sky as the moon disappears under a cloud and suddenly darkens the setting.Rita Hayworth""s life was forever affected by her role, as she once reportedly said:"Every man I knew had fallen in love with Gilda and wakened with me.He was first briefly glimpsed through one of the train windows, observing how a group of riders on horses appeared to be racing alongside the rain.Stone claimed that his harsh, frightening and unflinching depiction of guerrilla warfare was designed to sharply contrast with the fake depiction of war in the gung-ho John Wayne film,The Green Berets (1968).