GR (The Movie)

[LBernier at tribune.com]

Peter Trachtenberg writes:

>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.

Terry Gilliam is/was that Python.  I can see it now, it's 10 years later, and 
Slothrop is wandering on the east side of the Berlin Wall, mumbling about 
fire-breathing dragons and little people with maps.  Then Geli comes 
rising out of the river in a giant shell, and all the people on the platz
break into dance.

Actually, sarcasm aside, I love Gilliam, but all of his films are essentially
about redemption (even Sam's final insanity in Brazil is a salvation
of sorts) and GR is the antithesis of that.

Jean.