 Complete the following phrase:  Goldsmith credited King with being extremely gracious when asked about the film in media interviews, stating in diplomatic ways he felt the new approach to be lacking. Hal Roach eventually sold the project to New World Pictures who decided to go with Goldsmiths script, although they tried unsuccessfully to remove his name from the credits in favor of Kings. After release of the highly successful film, Goldsmith revealed that much of the story was a metaphor for the Iranian Revolution, with the takeover of the town by quasi-religious zealots acting for an evil God based on the Ayatollah Khomeini and his revolutionary guard taking over Iran. Burt and Vicky became analogous to the 