SPEECH REVERSALS ON THE PRISONER TV SERIES

 

Interview with Patrick McGoohan, co-creator and co-writer of The Prisoner

[Talking about the series Danger Man]

Forwards

"made, uh, 54 of those "


Backwards

"So I start off with this, uh, game"


[Telling idea of The Prisoner to the financier of the show]

Forwards

"What's it about? "


Backwards

"God with the soul "

 

 


[talking about why he wrote the show]

Forwards

"The numerology of society and the way we've been made into ciphers so there was a...."

Backwards


"For some with us Faust is within and they bully, N'ASA slays a lotta Moon ya"

[talking about why the writers had a hard time understanding]

Forwards

"Because they were also prisoners of conditioning and they were used to writing for, you know, the same "


Backwards

"message is bloody all figured out, see you in there 'n shouldn't cuz they inject the soul, roam in, they suck it"


[talking about number six]

Forwards

" tryin' to break his spirit"

Backwards

"Spirits scare me now "


[on number six]



Forwards

"and, uh, this is the one rebel"

Backwards

"Oh they'll know it cuz it's a bad nut "


[on the revealing of who number One was]

Forwards

"the monkey mask and number one's a monkey and then number one's himself "

Backwards

"false me, snow a man that make numbers, now in monad, Sam make number"


[student in audience asking question]

Forwards

"what interested me was the style "



Backwards

"The opposite so Wayne Bush should know"


[on the creation of Rover]

Forwards

"to cover while it was away"

Backwards

"Hell's a mal Rover"


[on the creation of Rover]

Forwards

"ways to the nearest big town and he came back with them and there were these funny balloons, all sizes, and that's how Rover came to be"

Backwards

"He make gRover was scout, nah, says asshole, mmhmm, snow will not be enough, see the way/wave not make Hell have makin' it, I kept saying it's Hell"


Forwards

[Answering a question on whether religion played any inspiration in the show, especially the final episode]

" Certainly the temptation with the guy putting me up on a throne and all this stuff that's, you know, that's Lucifer time"



Backwards

"Out with the soul, sir, honey {unintelligible}, playing with god with a loosh shit net, they game with us"


Forwards

"peculiar cuz all it consisted of mainly was 666"

Backwards

"was kiss kiss kiss sowin' them by the cist, they're all suckin' the loosh "


on an actor playing the role of number two cacking and needing three days to recover]


Forwards

"... which was very interesting, terrific pressures, and uh..."

Backwards

"Her net shock the loosh, put snares with you "


Forwards

"... because, uh, we're run by the pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television"


Backwards

"See the lack of moral, {gibberish} moral, we connect with our moral, they suck it "




Forwards

" The external was the symbol "



Backwards

"They'll miss us, they'll wanna escape "



Forwards

Patrick saying the greatest enemy one has is oneself]


"Greatest enemy that we have make, Number One was."

Backwards

"It's a nowhere man game, the hell with him in it, sit out "

The reversal is saying the game leads nowhere. The hell is the game with us in it, playing the Demiurge's game. Sit out, i.e. do not play the gmame refuse to reincarnate


Forwards

... (we all) fight it, I think, and that is why I made Number One an image of (Number Six).

Backwards

False demeanor, nowhere man, name your hell's dilemma, uh, myth o' love


[Answering the question, "Why the double mask? Why the monkey first?"]

Forwards

... n'oh, dear

Backwards

Pray/Prey the moon


[Asked if the cast was disappointed with who Number 1 was]

Forwards

...(They liked it. They said they always knew it was going to end up being) Himself

Backwards

False you


Forwards

I don't think there's progress

Backwards

Help Samash build his motor

Shamash or Samas was the Mesopotamian god of the Sun


[Answering about the monkey mask]

Forwards

The monkey thing was we're all supposed to.....

Backwards

They suck soil/soul, it's only a fake number


Forwards

'cause there so you know it's gonna start all over again 'cause there we continue to be prisoners

Backwards

{gibberish} make me full of bad sin cuz on he goes, Ninurta


[Answering on what the Prisoner will do with his new found freedom Patrick replies he has no freedom, there is no conclusion]

Forwards

No final conclusion to it

Backwards

That was my joke and, well, how fun




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