IV on Screen?

[rich]

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).
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The Shining actually wasn't a bad read; however, King's TV version of
The Shining was laughably bad

rich

On 6/25/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>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?
>>
>>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.
>>>
>>
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