TRP unfilmable?

[Natália Maranca]

I wouldn't know, I haven't read Vineland. As for the others, well they're
not exactly unfilmable. I'm just saying that you can't hold on to the
quality, so it could end up being a very long and boring movie.

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:34 AM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> Like I've sald elsewhere, Vineland would make it as a
> series of "Simpsons" episodes.
>
> What------ever. Vineland drops some of TRP's best jokes, it's got scads of
> TV
> references---we need to get it on the Tube, where It really belongs.
>
> They won't use watery dissolves into the halycon times, hopefully they'll
> have enough sense to just flash on the old Movieola through which
> Prarie is viewing her Mother's past .
>
> AtD will doubtless make a fine 32 hour film someday.
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Guy Ian Scott Pursey" <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk>
> > I'm re-reading Vineland at the moment and I'd love to see someone
> > attempt a film version of it. I think it's not only the most filmable of
> > all his books (though I haven't read AtD yet) but also actively lends
> > itself to such a project. Almost a-as if Pynchon intended it to be a
> > primer for the screen...?
> >
> >
> >
> > So long as they didn't resort water-y dissolving flashback techniques
> > every time Prairie gets told more about her mother, it could really
> > work.
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't know how the Thanatoids'd be portrayed but it'd be brilliant to
> > see Frenesi's 24fps footage of PR3 in action :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > Guy x
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Guy Ian Scott Pursey" <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:46:13 +0000
> Subject: RE: TRP unfilmable?
>
> I'm re-reading Vineland at the moment and I'd love to see someone attempt a
> film version of it. I think it's not only the most filmable of all his books
> (though I haven't read AtD yet) but also actively lends itself to such a
> project. Almost a-as if Pynchon intended it to be a primer for the screen…?
>
>
>
> So long as they didn't resort water-y dissolving flashback techniques every
> time Prairie gets told more about her mother, it could really work.
>
>
>
> I don't know how the Thanatoids'd be portrayed but it'd be brilliant to see
> Frenesi's 24fps footage of PR3 in action J
>
>
>
> Guy x
>
>
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