NP Kubrick

[jbor]

on 28/7/04 5:26 PM, Erik T. Burns wrote:

> foax:
> i'm agnostic on the pynchon-kubrick-glen cove triangle.
> but this brings in king, loy, stewart ... and hat-tips borges.
> midrange on the chuckleometer, if technically "NP".
> sosumi, etb
> 
> http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2003/lewinson-kubrick.html

While I don't necessarily want to buy into the debate either, our
free-to-air multicultural tv network recently ran a festival of Kubrick
films. We definitely got the version of _The Shining_ with Anne Jackson, the
stuff about the Indian burial ground, and the man in the bear suit. And for
both _2001_ and _Barry Lyndon_ the intermissions were retained "at the
request of Mr Kubrick".

Obviously it's possible that Kubrick read some or all of Pynchon's novels.
I'm not sure that a shot of a street sign with the name of Pynchon's home
town on it in _Eyes Wide Shut_ actually supports that thesis one way or the
other, however. It's an odd sort of homage to a writer's work if it is one.

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