" However, Burden slowly becomes disillusioned and troubled as he observes Stark""s corruptible rise to power ("strange deals" with special interests) the next time around:Willie was right." While attending an afternoon screening ofDuck Soupat his local repertory movie theater, one of the film""s characters - a depressed and neurotic NY Jew named Mickey Sachs (played by Allen himself), who is afraid of disease and dying - experiences a climactic epiphany hat life was meant to be enjoyed, by narrating: "And I started o feel how can you even think of killing yourself? I mean, isn""t it so stupid?.The composite character also has elements of Charles Manson and 60s Texas sniper Charles Whitman.] The Mayor concludes to the Chief of Police (John Larch): "The City of San Francisco does not pay criminals not to commit crimes.But suddenly, they were thrown to the ground and scared off, and he heard whispering voices and echoing shrieks.