On The Road - Movie trailer

[Ian Livingston]

I'll rent it later. I read Kerouac, was struck as kid, have not qualms with
OTR, but am not a fan. He offered more to youth culture than to literature.
Film and literature, are, as David so aptly points out, different
media--the film could be better than the book, worse, or just of
approximately equal value.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:26 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Expecting to not like the movie because you're not a Kerouac fan is
> vastly different than because of it being "derivative."  Was Kubrick's
> Lolita too derivative?  Or John Houston's Moby Dick?  Remaking a movie
> (or even a TV show) is also vastly different that adapting a novel or
> memoir to film.
>
> I've not yet read any Kerouac.  Don't know if I ever will.  But if the
> movie is good, I might...
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
> wrote:
> > i don't know ... in an era when hollywood refuses to release nothing
> other than films based on something else (tv shows, novels, comic books) -
> it just looks like more of the same crap to me. and i've never been much of
> a kerouac fan. burroughs is the only really beat writer who pushed beyond
> the limits of the genre into something universal.
> >
> > but, you know, i'll probably see it anyway.
> >
> > PG
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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