Wood on Current Fiction

[Dave Monroe]

I've long thought that, as with photography and
painting, so went the cinema and literature.  Either
one abandoned the field for what proved to be even
more fertile territory (Impressionism, Cubism, et
al.), or one reasserted oneself with a vengeance
(e.g., photorealism).  Or, in the case of lit'rachure,
one wrote with the "Now a Major Motion Picture" ed. in
mind (King, Chrichton, Clancy).  But ...

http://imdb.com/title/tt0062414/

Vs. ...

http://imdb.com/title/tt0092843/

Note that, either way, they both end with the etxt in
voiceover.  Me, I'm waiting for Finnegans Wake ...

--- Meg Larson <megley1 at chartermi.net> wrote:
>
> Maybe the question is not what novel can't be
> filmed, but what novel shouldn't be filmed.  Does a
> novel need to be filmed?


	
		
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