quoted 3 lines The director, David Cronenberg, seems to have something about wanting to turn
> The director, David Cronenberg, seems to have something about wanting to turn
> difficult books into movies (i.e. Naked Lunch
>
Perhaps you'd prefer a nice John Grisham novel instead? Obviously when
something is translated from one medium to another it becomes an
interpretation. Better (and always more interesting) to have a great
work or a difficult work translated than ye old page turner (although
stanley kubrick and cronenberg have also shown that interesting things
can be done with these as well - but its the exception, not the rule).
quoted 3 lines Just as with that novel, I think it's pretty impossible to get the full effect that t
> Just as with that novel, I think it's pretty impossible to get the full effect that the author
> intended unless you were to use the book as your shooting script.
>
Cronenberg is fond of responding to the nasayers that if he had made a
literal film of naked lunch it would have been 8 hours long, cost 200
million, and would be banned in every country in the world. And you'd
probably fall asleep about half way through. Haven't talked to anyone
yet who's read naked lunch in one sitting.
quoted 4 lines Crash the movie winds up being a film about people doing weird things for no
> Crash the movie winds up being a film about people doing weird things for no
> apparent reason, whereas the book is about people doing wierd things for
> very definate reasons, however implausible they may seem to be.
>
Their motivation seems pretty apparent to me, and I have not read the
book. Besides, isn't ambiguity a refreshing alternative that puts faith
in an intelligent audience as opposed to having everything spelt out for
like a moron (hello hollywood...)?
PS i have a crash t-shirt.
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