Re: Terminus of Gravity’s Rainbow

[Mark Kohut]

I immensely enjoyed the movie too.....

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:46 AM David Elliott via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

>  I must have bad taste. I enjoyed it.  Reading these comments makes me
> want to watch it again. Maybe tonight. I'm looking forward to the
> sequel(s).
>  Rian Johnson got the title from the Radiohead song "Knives Out"
> from Amnesiac.
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> Rian on GR:“I’ve read it twice now all the way through. I also just keep
> it around and will flip open to random spots and start reading. But I’ve
> kind of stopped recommending it to people. It’s hard to recommend it
> without feeling like an a—hole, because you’re handing them a mountain to
> climb.”
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> “It seems like this big challenging thing, but it's actually the most
> entertaining book that's ever been written. And it's a book where you will
> experience literally every possible emotion.”
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> “In what context can you talk about having read ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’
> without sounding like you’re just trying to be pretentious? I think that’s
> something that everyone who’s a fan of the book struggles with.”
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> On CoL49:“It’s funny, I didn’t think about it while writing ‘Knives Out,’
> but [The Crying of Lot 49] does have some similarities. There is definitely
> a similarity in there, with the executing of the will. And it just has the
> greatest ending.”
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> On VL:“The way that family is portrayed in that book. Talking about the
> soup of stuff that’s in your head, the way that ‘Vineland’ pulls no punches
> in terms of the way family can really f— you up — that gets to the heart of
> what’s important about it.”
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>     On Monday, November 22, 2021, 10:13:10 AM EST, Keith Davis <
> kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  In hindsight, I wouldn’t watch it again. Mildly entertaining at the time.
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> linktr.ee/keithdavis
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> > On Nov 22, 2021, at 9:46 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Knives Out was pretty bad.  I vaguely remember it as a bad Agatha
> Christie imitation.
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> >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 9:41 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> too bad the movie is terrible
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> >> rich
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> >> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 10:05 PM Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > I hadn’t noticed that detail. Going to check it out. Pretty good
> movie.
> >> > Worth watching.
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> >> > linktr.ee/keithdavis
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> >> > > On Nov 21, 2021, at 9:28 PM, Will Reid <willreid1871 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >> > > Harlan’s (Christopher Plummer) office is also full of tiny models
> of
> >> > rockets. Rian Johnson is a huge Pynchon fan, I suspect. I’ve been
> tempted
> >> > to go through the rest of his oeuvre and look for more Pynchon
> references…
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> >> > >> On Nov 21, 2021, at 8:06 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > >> Watching a movie, “Knives Out”. Daniel Craig is a private
> investigator
> >> > trying to solve the suicide or murder of a famous writer(Christopher
> >> > Plummer). Craig suspects that the private nurse(Ana De Armas), knows
> >> > something. He lurks around to talk with her privately. She asks if he
> is
> >> > “still digging”.  After comparing the police detectives to truffle
> pigs, he
> >> > says he “anticipates the terminus of Gravity’s Rainbow”, which leads
> to a
> >> > short exchange about the book.
> >> > >> ….you’re welcome….lol
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