Quote Originally Posted by Puzz3D View Post
Ozy has wisdom and breath of knowledge, and in addition he has human feeling. Only a few of the characters in the story are powerful enough to change the course of events at the necessary level. Of those, they all seem less desireable to me than Ozy for various reasons.
The movie also undersold Ozy's "rockstar" or "JFK" appeal from the novel. In the movie he's a little more 2dimensional as "the smartest man in the world." In the novel I think he functions a little more as questioning how the people we choose to lead us actually decide things. It feels a little more like he's perceived to be the smartest man in the world, but that doesn't mean has all the answers.