He speaks about fighting for animal rights when horses, during filming, are killed after taking a hard fall and breaking a limb or a neck yet, he endorses cockfighting on his Hollywood estate. He tells that he couldn’t kill another man but a few chapters previously, he spoke about killing a New Guinea native who threatened his life. Other contradictions come up when in Spain, he is given a machine gun to kill Germans at the cusp of World War II.
The reader has to question if the excitement in Quincey’s book influenced Flynn to conjure up similar stories to enliven his own autobiography. He claims the book awakened his curiosity about the erotic sensations spurred on by the hallucinogen. A few pages later, he tells that he never touched opium until he read The Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey. One minute he is experiencing opium for the first time with a beautiful whore Ting Ling in Hong Kong. He expresses a number of contradictory factoids. He leaps between being a loathsome miscreant and a mindful gentleman, vacillating his speech between a conversational tone with the reader and narrating his experiences as though the dictation comes from a private journal. Though he speaks bluntly, there are gaps in his stories that cause the reader to doubt the credibility of his account. Truth or fiction, Flynn proves to be a product of his time, reflecting about his environment that encompasses the days leading up to post-Prohibition and moves through World War II and the Golden Age of Hollywood. Though many of the situations he describes seem far-fetched and fabricated, the stories shed light on the social climate and prevailing attitudes of the time.
In his autobiography My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn shares a litany of perilous tales that keep him teetering between life and death. It is no exaggeration to say that actor Errol Flynn experienced more drama and adventure in his real life than in playing the infamous English hero Robin Hood in the Warner Brothers 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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