In "Cannibal! The Musical" is Juan Schwartz a real person?

Question

In the credits, it states that the leading role of Alfred Packer is played by a man named Juan Schwartz. That doesnt really sound like a real name...... and he looks suspiciously similar to Trey Parker. Does anyone else think this?

Answer 1

Well, it's probably a real enough name.. but it is Trey Parker that plays Packer..

I love that movie.. so off the wall..

Answer 2

I was attracted to this by your rant against the Wikipedia. The Wikipedia has its limits but sometimes it is a great resource, and does indeed, credibly, point to a real person as the indirect ispiration of the character who is described in the Moritat which we now call Mac the Knife. Mac the Knife is a very loose adaptation of a song which in some translations of die Dreigroschenopfer is called Moritat vom Macke Messer. This describes a character taken directly from John Gay's play, "The Begger's Opera" The relevent passage in the Wikipedia comes from a page devoted to an eighteenth century criminal named Jack Sheppard. "Perhaps the most prominent play based on Sheppard's life is John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728). Sheppard was the inspiration for the figure of Macheath; his nemesis, Peachum, is based on Jonathan Wild....Two centuries later The Beggar's Opera was the basis for The Threepenny Opera of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (1929)." A source is given for the part of the statement before the ellipses. That source is Lucy Moore The Thieves' Opera, p. 227. I had read such statements before, but I believe that was back in the '70s so I don't remember where. I've read the second part of that statement many times, including in an old biography of Sir John Geilgud who starred in a production of the Beggar's Opera. I've listed two other sites. The first is Marilyn Manson's website. The second is a PDF file called Polly II Reader: Plan for a Revolution in the Docklands. There are other resources out there and search engines are among them. Frankly, though, I'd forgotten Sheppard's name (and Wild's) and probably wouldn't have remembered it if not for the Wikipedia. Read critically and with the notes they are trying to enforce on contributions, it is a great GENERAL introduction to many subjects.

Answer 3

Juan Schwartz is a real name I know more Juans than Treys and Milfords come to think of it.

Answer 4

You might also note that in the opening credits the movie was a remake of a 1954 (or so) film. Of course it's completely made up. Grand flick that one.