IV on Screen?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

OK, point taken.  But I still think books where the writing style is an important part of what makes them great stand to lose a lot in the translation to screen. I really don't want to see a movie version of Gravity's Rainbow.  I'm OK with some material being unsuited for the movie form.  You've picked the best of the Kubrick sources, but Kubrick wisely took liberties with mediocre works to create (in my opinion) his three greatest movies:  The Shining, Red Alert, and The Sentinel (I'm a big fan of Arthur C. Clarke, but the movie turned his interesting idea into a masterpiece).

Laura

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>From: David Kipen <kipend at arts.gov>
>Sent: Jun 25, 2009 3:26 PM
>To: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>, "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: RE: IV on Screen?
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>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...
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>All finest,
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>David Kipen
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>-----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?
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>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.
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>Laura
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>-----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?
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>>On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:28 AM, rich wrote:
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>>> Certainly Lebowski might sit better with execs than
>>> Gravity's Rainbow, right?
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>>This is what happens when you fight a stranger in the Alps:
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcKBcZzGdA
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>>I think plenty of sequences in Vineland would work as Simpsons
>>episodes. Some from AtD would work mighty fine as Futurama set-pieces.
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