Pynchonian Movies

[The Great Quail]

>And from what I can remember, the movie Kafka (1991)was much more
>Pynchonesque than Kafkaesque.

I agree with Toby, that movie was very un-Kafkaesque! What a wasted 
opportunity! I think Kafka would have loathed that movie, seeing as 
the little guy actually triumphs in the end against a corrupt 
conspiracy! And, no less, through action, through force! Egards. 
Great actors, wonderful sets, interesting direction....but poor, poor 
Kafka.

I agree with those who are saying a real Pynchonian movie would be 
almost impossible. (Though "Lot 49" or "Vineland" would be cool 
attempts; with David Lynch directing the former and Oliver Stone the 
latter.)(Ok, that's gonna piss off a few people.) I remembr after 
Cronenberg filmed "Crash," an interviewer said, "You have a habit of 
filming books many consider unfilmable -- 'The Naked Lunch,' 'Crash.' 
What's next, 'Gravity's Rainbow?'"

I kind of think of Pynchon during "Apocalypse Now" sometimes, 
especially now that "Redux" is out: sprawling plot, a vast cast of 
lunatics, a mixture of sacred and profane, of low and high culture....

"Mason & Dixon" would make a great, high-budget epic mini-series, I 
think -- anything just to get David Thewlis to play Dixon, a role he 
was born for!

--Quail
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