One of the film""s posters carried a tagline related to the character""s rebelliousness:"The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform."With this vivid film, director Stuart Rosenberg made one of the key films of the 1960s, a decade in which protest against established powers was a key theme.Let""s make him come to us."In their escape car, "Max" apologized to Ethan: "Sorry I doubted you, dear boy.You are a good sport." She confessed that her deal with Job included a "successful boot scan" - which had obviously failed, so the deal with "off" with Job.We may believe there are no Battling Burrows, striking he helpless with brutal whip - but do we not ourselves use the whip of unkind words and deeds? So, perhaps, Battling may even carry a message of warning.Thorin was brought before the Elven King Thranduil, a blonde Elf with a crown of leaves and twigs, who was immediately suspicious of Thorin""s greedy motives and quest:Some may imagine that a noble quest is at hand.