Movies

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Aaron writes:
"I love the list of possible movies TRP would have spent his time
watching--I would add Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" not because it
influenced TRP but because I have often found it derivative of GR's
approach to the chaos and surreality of a war zone.
 
just my $.02"


It also deliberately derives from its source--Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, but
then HOD is background for just about anyone of a certain age--and he
influenced Eliot too!

BTW, since Aaron signs off with a quote from Garcia Marquez, does anyone know
if GGM has mentioned reading Conrad's NOSTROMO before writing ONE HUNDRED
YEARS OF SOLITUDE?  There are some remarkable parallels (as well as profound
differences) between the two.  And just to take us back to movies, note the
names of the space freighter in the first ALIEN film and its escape pod--
the Nostromo and the Sulaco (setting for Conrad's novel)!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)