GR (The Movie)

[Andrew Dinn]

John Roca writes:

> Has anyone considered Peter Greenaway for the film version of GR?  He's
> really the only one I can think of who works in the multi-structured fashion
> of Pynchon.

Peter Greenaway has a very (*very*) low opinion of those who base
films on books. From listening to his views on the subject (on radio)
he seems to regard it as indicating a lack of imagination, integrity
and creativity - perhaps even, one might go so far as to say, a
betrayal of the possibilities of the medium. He said this circa
`Drowning by Numbers', well before `Prospero's Books'. But I doubt his
opinion has changed much despite the existence of the latter film. I
can't say I disagree with his opinion in the matter.


Andrew Dinn
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Geopolitical truth is like a hedgehog.  It doesn't know much, but it
knows one big thing.  And here is the power of geopolitics properly
applied.  It is robust in perspective, admittedly partial, always
incomplete, schematic even, and at times fanatic.  In the end it
unifies and clarifies, and imposes on complex reality its imperatives,
to plan and to act. -- General Golbery do Couto e Silva, 1957