Rico explains how he hasn""t had an opportunity to ""be somebody"" yet.He speculates about his criminal ambitions and future as a racketeer:I could do all the things that fella does, and more, only I never got my chance.]It didn""t really take off as a phenomenon until it was resurrected after a long run of midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village beginning on April 1, 1976 - April Fools"" Day.Told with inventive, stylized, timeless and darkfilm noirishimages, symbolism and visual poetry, it blends both a pastoral setting with dream-like creatures, fanatical characters, imperiled children during a river journey, a wicked guardian/adult, and salvation and redemption in the form of a old farm woman (a ""fairy godmother"") rather than from a saintly but devilish Bible-totin"" Preacher."" A suicidal charge would be the only possible option, so Mireau expresses grave doubt and skepticism about the plan, and about the condition of his battle-weary troops:It""s out of the question, George.