IV on Screen?

[David Kipen]

Got something against The Maltese Falcon or The Grapes of Wrath, Laura? Or Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange, for that matter? Sorry to de-lurk just to pick a fight. You stepped unsuspectingly under the hooves of an old hobbyhorse of mine, is all. I'll just pop back into my bolthole now...


All finest,

David Kipen

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of kelber at mindspring.com
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:20 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: IV on Screen?

Poorly-written books are better suited for the screen -- look at Kubrick's sources.  There's nothing worse than seeing a good book destroyed.  I'm thinking of Mauel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, which was first turned into a crappy movie and then (ugh!) a Broadway musical.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Jun 25, 2009 3:04 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: IV on Screen?
>
>On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:28 AM, rich wrote:
>
>> Certainly Lebowski might sit better with execs than
>> Gravity's Rainbow, right?
>
>This is what happens when you fight a stranger in the Alps:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcKBcZzGdA
>
>I think plenty of sequences in Vineland would work as Simpsons
>episodes. Some from AtD would work mighty fine as Futurama set-pieces.
>