Kidnapped (1971 film) Kidnapped (1971 film) Kidnapped is a 1971 British adventure film, directed by Delbert Mann and starring Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins and Donald Pleasence, as well as a number of well-known British character actors. The film is based on the novel "Kidnapped" and the first half of the sequel "Catriona" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Young David Balfour arrives at a bleak Scottish house, the House of Shaws, to claim his inheritance after his father. The house and land have been under the custodianship of his father's brother, Ebeneezer Balfour, but on reaching adulthood, the land and property become David's.
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death considered that the "image (of) an intelligent species whose biological imperatives compel females to devour their mates (...) is dramatized with the directness of an arrow striking a bullseye". For his acclaimed 2016 video artwork, "Love is the Message, the Message is Death," filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa invoked Tiptree's story in the echoed title structure. The video, an indictment of America's simultaneous love affair with black culture and murder and oppression of black people, takes on added resonance when considered alongside Tiptree's tale of cannibalistic destruction intertwined with love. Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death ""Love Is