You little trust-maker, you're a heart-breaker : 2006 : Claire Enders

I was seated in the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane watching a performance, hardly my usual weekday evening entertainment. It was my first time 'at the opera' and I had absolutely no comprehension of the storyline unfolding on-stage. Instead, my mind was wandering to a recent rewatch of the 1976 horror film 'The Omen'. It was ostensibly about the cruel, devilish offspring of a United States ambassador to London who delights in plotting terrible ends for the adults around him, his elevated status immunising him from scrutiny. Viewing it again, I had wondered if the movie had been written by American screenwriter David Seltzer as an allegory for the subset of wealthy, privileged heirs who zealously execute their destructive ambitions to make life hell for the 'little people' around them. In Hollywood? In London?