IMPOLEX

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:56 AM, glenn <glennfuller at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Well, I will definitely not pay to see this movie,  because I do not believe
> in plagerism or not compensating an artist for their  intelectual property.
> That being said, I can't wait to download the torrent from pirate bay.

Having put the director on the spot in front of an audience, an having
spoken with him at some length afterwards, I think I can say that,
regardless of results, he had honorable intentions.  I'd be surprised
if anyone pursues him over copyright infringement.  I can't recall
just who suggested this now, but it wouldn't be far off the mark to
describe the film, in both conception and execution, as a sort of
dream response to the novel (various female characters--Katje, Ilse,
Bianca, and so forth--are condensed into one actress; there's a
characetr with an eyepatch who it took me a while to realize may have
been inspired somehow by Pirate Prentiss, but doesn'tnecessarily serve
any similar function whatsoever), with the Pynchonian elements
drifting free of their narrative, even associative embedding, and
recombined with elements of the director's own experience, both of the
novel and otherwise, as well as the happenstances of production (while
the one actress nails in one take what was reportedly an eleven-page
monologue, the Slothrop-character actor reportedly didn't get a single
line right).  This may be a generous assessment, but I will note, the
director/screenwriter/ ..., having read the novel, was compelled to do
whatever it is he's done, to the point of quitting his job a month
later to do so ...