GR (The Movie)

[Peter Trachtenberg]

On Mon, 25 Sep 1995 jeremias at sover.net wrote:

>         Just came back from seeing this on the big screen. I found myself
> thinking half way through the movie, "Gosh, some people have got this movie
> way wrong". For example the college film board that was sponsoring it
> called it (and I quote) "Stanley Kubrick's 1971 satire of a future society
> . . )
>         Well, I saw this film as the tale of one man's picaresque journey
> through a distorted, hyper-stylized world ruled by systems of many sorts.
> (Sounds a little familiar if you put it that way doesn't it?) Someone on
> the list here once mentioned that Kubrick would be good to direct GR. I
> don't know if GR could or *should* be filmed but why doesn't our man TPR
> write some screenplays? He's obviously got the chops for it. Kubrick and
> Pynchon, what a duo they'd make. Kubrick's use of color in A Clockwork
> Orange alone suggests he would be savvy enough to take on some of Pynchon's
> ideas.
> 
>I think GR would be too much for any filmmaker, though maybe V or Crying 
could be adapted. The problem is that great novels usually make 
disastrous films, the former being about language and the latter using 
language only as a pretext for images. However, the director I'd match 
with Pynchon would be either David Cronenberg, who displayed great 
ingenuity and humor with Naked Lunch--it was a failure but an interesting 
failure--or the former Monty Python who directed Brazil.
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