cyberpunk & the GR movie

[Andrew Dinn]

Penny Padgett writes:

>Ya, but I'd love to see a 27-hour Gravity's Rainbow movie...every scene
>incorporated intact.

I think this idea of translating Pynchon to film is somewhat
misguided. One of the greatest stylistic feats achieved by Pynchon in
`Gravity's Rainbow' is the literary rendering of film technique,
i.e. the recreation (*not* reconstruction, it is an act of synthesis)
of film technique in the written medium. Ditto TV technique in
Vineland. Any attempt to turn `Gravity's Rainbow' into a film would
mean we actually were at the movies, thereby removing the immense
pleasure of immersing oneself in Pynchon's cinematic illusion.


Andrew Dinn
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