" BackgroundBeing There(1979), subtitled "a story of chance," is a provocative and elegiac black comedy -- a wonderful dramatic yet placid tale or fable that satirized politics, celebrity, media-obsession and television.Katie gives her "two cents" - sympathizing with Lt.Wilks (Bannion calls him: "that leaning tower of jelly"), realizing that Bannion""s boss only has a few more years to go before retirement and doesn""t want to jeopardize his pension.Doc treated the infected, blistered feet of Fu Cheng (Steve Barredo).Clothes were hung on improvised lines or branches to dry.The camera panned from right to left over a pair of sunglasses, a revolver, a pack of cigarettes, a bullet-lined helmet reading "MAKE WAR NOT," and one recruit was improvising in order to shave...Apologize o Lucy.Say you""re sorry!" Dressed in fur coats borrowed from the wardrobe, they went in search of Mr.Tumnus, who they discovered had been seized by Her Majesty and charged with High Treason (for fraternizing with humans), and aken away by Wolf Maugrim (voice of Michael Madsen), Captain of he Witch""s Secret Police.The scene transitioned to the one of Kristen in the film""s opening sequence in her bedroom when her mother interrupted her while she was constructing the paper mache house.