TRP unfilmable?

[Guy Ian Scott Pursey]

Hey, what a brilliant idea! Is there any way we can contact Matt
Groening just to pass this idea on? I can't imagine he's too busy with
The Simpsons movie and Futurama out the way.

Vineland as a Simpsons-style animation running over several episodes
would be so exciting :-)

And something that would appeal to my younger sisters; perhaps get them
reading Pynchon in years to come!


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sent: 02 June 2008 12:34
To: P-list
Subject: RE: TRP unfilmable?

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
> 
>