GR the Movie

[Oliver Xymoron]

On Fri, 15 Sep 1995, J. Lester wrote:

> GRAVITY'S RAINBOW: HA! HA! HA! Who would be crazy enough to try and adapt 
> this. Would it be a huge mini-series from the BBC, directed by Steven 
> Frears? A three hour Oliver Stone production starring Robert Downey, Jr.? 

What I think this calls for is collaboration. Various passages directed
and filmed by folks like Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Almodovar, van
Sant, Copolla, Spike Lee, Kurosawa... the final product would be a five or
six hour long visual documentary put together in montage format with
various elapse-time sequences ala Koyaanisqatsi, drug sequences and rocket
flight imagery engineered by ILM and EBM, and stock WWII era footage (not
to mention King Kong). No dialogue, narration (readings actually) by
Boroughs, Crispin Glover, Michael Jackson, Dennis Hopper, Steven Wright, 
James Earl Jones, Connie Chung, Emo Philips, et al. Slothrop never 
actually appears because the movie is filmed from his point of view. The 
soundtrack is a collection of scratchy 78s, big band, blues, early jazz, 
swing, break-beat techno, acid house, and ambient. The title is again 
"Mindless Pleasures" and is given a thumbs up by Siskel who says "Thumbs 
up! I thought Christina Ricci was wonderful as Bianca!" and Ebert won't 
admit he watched it. 

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