Pynchon-esque films

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 3:03 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> <<My vote for "Most Pynchonesque" goes to "The Tin Drum," but note  
> that  I saw that fine film just after my first reading of Gravity's  
> Rainbow. Still and all, they felt like blood brothers at the time.>>
>
> This is an odd comment, given that The Tin Drum was a Gunther Grass  
> novel, published in 1959.  Sort of like saying that Lolita was  
> Pynchonesque, had you found it so.
>
> I'm not so much nitpicking  as noting that many of the films  
> mentioned in this string preceded Pynchon's writing and made to  
> think, by that, of Borges's Kafka and His Precursors.


When I first read Gravity's Rainbow it was Polker's story that really  
grabbed me. The film of "The Tin Drum" came out around the time I  
started reading Gravity's Rainbow. Who influenced who, when and where?  
I don't know, but it struck me that a variation on Polker's story was  
being told from a very different angle in The Tin Drum [the movie.]