ST ch 19 French 75s, Greasy Thumb Guzik

[Mark Kohut]

I’d buy that real ticket. Or even the shadow one. Look what he did to/for A
Clockwork Orange.

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wish I could step into a parallel universe where Kubrick had adapted GR.
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:30 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Even Lolita worked for me. Nabokov adapted it.
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes to Barry Lyndon! And Dr. Strangelove, from Red Alert. I'd say the
>>> only
>>> (for me, anyway) unsuccessful Kubrick adaptation was Lolita - but
>>> adapting
>>> Nabokov's brilliant prose is a tough job.
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:05 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Kubrick and "Barry Lyndon" – what he did with that novel is
>>> > overwhelming, the structure alone. In my eyes Shining the movie is not
>>> > better than Shining the novel.
>>> > And Hawks made from Hemingway's underwhelming novel THAHN a
>>> > wonderful movie.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>
>>
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