December 1st, 2009 / 5:15 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Blake Butler—
There is no reason to see the film version of The Road. Sure, it looks OK, and the acting is OK, but if you’ve read it, it’s a word for word thing mostly, and takes away from the imagination. It actually kind of made me despise the book, which had managed to make it past even Oprah. Corn.
i think i brought this up a long time ago: but how does this movie stack up against haneke’s time of the wolf? has anyone seen both? they seem very similar in premise.
i think i brought this up a long time ago: but how does this movie stack up against haneke’s time of the wolf? has anyone seen both? they seem very similar in premise.
time of the wolf is a good film. the road is not.
time of the wolf is mixed in effect but at least it isn’t just a weaker replication of an object that already exists.
time of the wolf is a good film. the road is not.
time of the wolf is mixed in effect but at least it isn’t just a weaker replication of an object that already exists.
whats the best film adaptation of a book ever?
whats the best film adaptation of a book ever?
seems like a reasonable argument. i really liked time of the wolf. i haven’t read the road and definitely don’t want to see the movie without having read the book.
seems like a reasonable argument. i really liked time of the wolf. i haven’t read the road and definitely don’t want to see the movie without having read the book.
the trailer looked pretty bad, I thought – like “we gotta get to the coast!” may be misleading; maybe that is just what trailers are supposed to do.
That is fucked up when they kill the horse in ‘time of the wolf’. Why did they have to kill the horse?
the trailer looked pretty bad, I thought – like “we gotta get to the coast!” may be misleading; maybe that is just what trailers are supposed to do.
That is fucked up when they kill the horse in ‘time of the wolf’. Why did they have to kill the horse?
can’t pick the best. i think american psycho lived up to the original material. same w/Cuckoo’s Nest.
can’t pick the best. i think american psycho lived up to the original material. same w/Cuckoo’s Nest.
i’m gonna go with david lean’s adaptation of great expectations. it’s nearly perfect.
i’m gonna go with david lean’s adaptation of great expectations. it’s nearly perfect.
A Clockwork Orange?
(I’ve never seen A Clockwork Orange)
Babysitters Club, obvs
A Clockwork Orange?
(I’ve never seen A Clockwork Orange)
Babysitters Club, obvs
Most successful adaptations seem to be of genre fiction of one kind or another. The Big Sleep comes to mind – Faulkner adapting Chandler. Filmmakers tend to get hamstrung by quote unquote serious lit or Great Books.
Salo
Most successful adaptations seem to be of genre fiction of one kind or another. The Big Sleep comes to mind – Faulkner adapting Chandler. Filmmakers tend to get hamstrung by quote unquote serious lit or Great Books.
Salo
The Godfather?
The Godfather?
i really liked ‘remains of the day’ both book and movie
i really liked ‘remains of the day’ both book and movie
The Duellists
The Duellists
Yes. Ridley apparently backed away from Blood Meridian. Maybe a wise move.
Yes. Ridley apparently backed away from Blood Meridian. Maybe a wise move.
thanks blake, i trust you and will instead spend my date money on _a serious man_
i already bought that book once.
thanks blake, i trust you and will instead spend my date money on _a serious man_
i already bought that book once.
twilight / new moon
twilight / new moon
seems like the shining not only makes its own thing out of the book while still resembling it, its aura obliterates the original.
seems like the shining not only makes its own thing out of the book while still resembling it, its aura obliterates the original.
i also like shortcuts and naked lunch
if we’re going the route of creating new out of source material then i elect cronenberg’s naked lunch and tarkovsky’s solaris
i also like shortcuts and naked lunch
if we’re going the route of creating new out of source material then i elect cronenberg’s naked lunch and tarkovsky’s solaris
a critic said that there’s one thing a movie adaptation of McCarthy’s work can never reproduce and that is his stellar prose. i’d rather read the book again. though No Country was a great film to watch. how do the Coen’s win an Academy Award for adapting that book when there’s not much difference between the two?
a critic said that there’s one thing a movie adaptation of McCarthy’s work can never reproduce and that is his stellar prose. i’d rather read the book again. though No Country was a great film to watch. how do the Coen’s win an Academy Award for adapting that book when there’s not much difference between the two?
because the book was written to become a film, and lacks that exact language you are talking about. i see that as the fartbook in mccarthy’s lineage
did anyone read this review on tinymixtapes?
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/The-Road
“Ultimately, the mediocrity of The Road can be blamed on Hillcoat’s vision. No Country for Old Men succeeded as a film because the Coen Brothers were smart enough to leave most of the novel untouched (excepting the addition of a joke at the expense of a dead dog). Several years prior, Billy Bob Thornton was able to manage a decent adaptation of another McCarthy novel, All The Pretty Horses (though Matt Damon was horribly miscast as John Grady Cole). Hillcoat’s failure lies in his inability to get out of the way and let the true master tell us his story.”
This critic seems to be blaming the director for giving the book a backwards interpretation.
because the book was written to become a film, and lacks that exact language you are talking about. i see that as the fartbook in mccarthy’s lineage
did anyone read this review on tinymixtapes?
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/The-Road
“Ultimately, the mediocrity of The Road can be blamed on Hillcoat’s vision. No Country for Old Men succeeded as a film because the Coen Brothers were smart enough to leave most of the novel untouched (excepting the addition of a joke at the expense of a dead dog). Several years prior, Billy Bob Thornton was able to manage a decent adaptation of another McCarthy novel, All The Pretty Horses (though Matt Damon was horribly miscast as John Grady Cole). Hillcoat’s failure lies in his inability to get out of the way and let the true master tell us his story.”
This critic seems to be blaming the director for giving the book a backwards interpretation.
shortcuts is my favorite film of all time
i think ken baumann hates it tho, remember some barf of gag comment he made
shortcuts is my favorite film of all time
i think ken baumann hates it tho, remember some barf of gag comment he made
tarkovsky for the win
tarkovsky for the win
The Shining is hard to beat. Though Tarkovsky’s Stalker does the same thing with Roadside Picnic.
Altman’s The Long Goodbye is also masterful in reworking its material and threatening to replace the original in yr mind.
Oh yeah and Blade Runner.
The Shining is hard to beat. Though Tarkovsky’s Stalker does the same thing with Roadside Picnic.
Altman’s The Long Goodbye is also masterful in reworking its material and threatening to replace the original in yr mind.
Oh yeah and Blade Runner.
All Quiet on the Western Front or the Shining. I can’t choose.
All Quiet on the Western Front or the Shining. I can’t choose.
Ooh, I agree…it’s maybe not my favorite of these, but it is just about perfect. David Lean is so kickass.
Ooh, I agree…it’s maybe not my favorite of these, but it is just about perfect. David Lean is so kickass.
Mazes and Monsters starring a young Tom Hanks. Really did justice to Ronna Jaffe’s book.
That is to say, both were shallow pieces of sensationalist, Satanic panic trash, and as the film managed to be just as screechy and stupid as the book, it was a pitch-perfect adaptation of the book.
That’s what we meant, right?
Mazes and Monsters starring a young Tom Hanks. Really did justice to Ronna Jaffe’s book.
That is to say, both were shallow pieces of sensationalist, Satanic panic trash, and as the film managed to be just as screechy and stupid as the book, it was a pitch-perfect adaptation of the book.
That’s what we meant, right?
the easiest piece for the uniniatiated to start with, for sure.
the easiest piece for the uniniatiated to start with, for sure.
Fight Club. Better than the book.
Fight Club. Better than the book.
never read it, must be awful
never read it, must be awful
Yes.
Yes.
Bag of vomit, probably.
Yesss.
Cronenberg is on it, now.
Bag of vomit, probably.
Yesss.
Cronenberg is on it, now.
I get all hot when people talk about movies here. More, please.
I get all hot when people talk about movies here. More, please.
Great adaptations:
Eyes Wide Shut
Blade Runner
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
The Shining
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
The Piano Teacher
Great adaptations:
Eyes Wide Shut
Blade Runner
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
The Shining
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
The Piano Teacher
The Godfather
American Psycho
Goodfellas
The Godfather
American Psycho
Goodfellas
another fart waiting to happen
i like shortcuts a lot – pt anderson completely ripped it off with magnolia. not a huge fan of naked lunch, although i appreciate that it isn’t like the book, because that is what it should be like.
another fart waiting to happen
i like shortcuts a lot – pt anderson completely ripped it off with magnolia. not a huge fan of naked lunch, although i appreciate that it isn’t like the book, because that is what it should be like.
i like it when ken flickers.
factotum
ask the dust (i really really liked this movie like gay and shit)
i like it when ken flickers.
factotum
ask the dust (i really really liked this movie like gay and shit)
i’m with ken. short cuts == asshole crunch
i’m with ken. short cuts == asshole crunch
being there
being there
You should start a whole new thread about directors who are great adaptators (Kubrick et. al.) vs. directors who can only work with their own materials.
You should start a whole new thread about directors who are great adaptators (Kubrick et. al.) vs. directors who can only work with their own materials.
Nice. Book’s better, but still…. Trying to translate that book into a movie….
Nice. Book’s better, but still…. Trying to translate that book into a movie….
Someone should make a film of the text of Blood Meridian, just the print streaming down the screen, a page turning slowly every few minutes. I’d sit in the theater for a few hours eating a mondo-sized popcorn reading. Text is gorgeous.
Someone should make a film of the text of Blood Meridian, just the print streaming down the screen, a page turning slowly every few minutes. I’d sit in the theater for a few hours eating a mondo-sized popcorn reading. Text is gorgeous.
OK. Ken “get(s) all hot when people talk about movies here. More, please.” Reminds me of Austin Powers saying “”Yes, please.” Nice.
Full disclosure: I am two sheets to the wind right now.
But politeness always counts.
So, to give you my two cents on all this:
The Godfather I and II would end up in my “top ten” list but I _always_ think of them as movies first, and not as books first (sorry, Puzo). (The wedding/Don scene, though, … the reason _why_ the undertaker is indebted to the Don, in fact, is a mind killer. I have not actually read The Godfather, but I’ve heard about that part. The Don is indebted to a lot of people.)
Same thing goes for Goodfellas. Stellar movie. Book, back seat. Sometimes when I am driving in my car somewhere late for something and feeling, I don’t know, freaked, I _hear_ “Monkey Man” just like when Ray is drivin’ crosstown (bro makin’ spaghetti sauce), helicopter hoverin’, I’ma gonna scream….or is it “Gimme Shelter”? Both are in the movie.
Bladerunner – don’t know the book. Good movie, I like The Matrix better, tho.
American Psycho – want to see the movie – like Christian Ble a lot – glanced throught the book in my local Barnes and Noble once, got nauseous (battery/jumper cables/nipples), knew I didn’t want to read it. Less Than Zero, however, I liked. Very LA.
Also in my “top ten”:
Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, screwball gothic, from Tennessee Williams play)
The Third Man (Graham Greene story/screenplay)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Albee play)
2001 (Arthur C. Clarke)
The Shining (Stephen King)
Dr. Strangelove (???????)
etc etc etc
I need to rest for a while………………….
OK. Ken “get(s) all hot when people talk about movies here. More, please.” Reminds me of Austin Powers saying “”Yes, please.” Nice.
Full disclosure: I am two sheets to the wind right now.
But politeness always counts.
So, to give you my two cents on all this:
The Godfather I and II would end up in my “top ten” list but I _always_ think of them as movies first, and not as books first (sorry, Puzo). (The wedding/Don scene, though, … the reason _why_ the undertaker is indebted to the Don, in fact, is a mind killer. I have not actually read The Godfather, but I’ve heard about that part. The Don is indebted to a lot of people.)
Same thing goes for Goodfellas. Stellar movie. Book, back seat. Sometimes when I am driving in my car somewhere late for something and feeling, I don’t know, freaked, I _hear_ “Monkey Man” just like when Ray is drivin’ crosstown (bro makin’ spaghetti sauce), helicopter hoverin’, I’ma gonna scream….or is it “Gimme Shelter”? Both are in the movie.
Bladerunner – don’t know the book. Good movie, I like The Matrix better, tho.
American Psycho – want to see the movie – like Christian Ble a lot – glanced throught the book in my local Barnes and Noble once, got nauseous (battery/jumper cables/nipples), knew I didn’t want to read it. Less Than Zero, however, I liked. Very LA.
Also in my “top ten”:
Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, screwball gothic, from Tennessee Williams play)
The Third Man (Graham Greene story/screenplay)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Albee play)
2001 (Arthur C. Clarke)
The Shining (Stephen King)
Dr. Strangelove (???????)
etc etc etc
I need to rest for a while………………….
the shining… nice
maybe, mimi, but it has everything you need and nothing you don’t. hal ashby was the shiznit fo shizzy.
i should also say that i think wings of desire (written by peter handke & wim wenders) is a masterpiece of where literature can meet film, and goes places with that collaboration most people are either afraid of or unwilling to go.
seems like the whole adaptation thing is part of the problem. it’s like building a mountain on top of another mountain. writers and filmmakers would do better to do it like a sandcastle: one starts on the base and there other digs out the moat. (or smthng)
i suppose paris, tx does the same thing. but i think of sam shepard as a playwright more than an author, i guess. (saw that he’s in the new paris review, didn’t buy it, got all-quarterly and a bookforum instead, felt like a capital D Douche afterwards (what am i, sixty-five?))
the shining… nice
maybe, mimi, but it has everything you need and nothing you don’t. hal ashby was the shiznit fo shizzy.
i should also say that i think wings of desire (written by peter handke & wim wenders) is a masterpiece of where literature can meet film, and goes places with that collaboration most people are either afraid of or unwilling to go.
seems like the whole adaptation thing is part of the problem. it’s like building a mountain on top of another mountain. writers and filmmakers would do better to do it like a sandcastle: one starts on the base and there other digs out the moat. (or smthng)
i suppose paris, tx does the same thing. but i think of sam shepard as a playwright more than an author, i guess. (saw that he’s in the new paris review, didn’t buy it, got all-quarterly and a bookforum instead, felt like a capital D Douche afterwards (what am i, sixty-five?))
Straw Dogs, The Six Moral Tales (by Rohmer, which were adapted from Rohmer’s own short stories), Planet of the Apes, The Birds…
And I think I liked most of the Slaughterhouse-Five adaptation.
Straw Dogs, The Six Moral Tales (by Rohmer, which were adapted from Rohmer’s own short stories), Planet of the Apes, The Birds…
And I think I liked most of the Slaughterhouse-Five adaptation.
all-story, i mean – lish on the brain
all-story, i mean – lish on the brain
Also, has anyone seen the DeLillo written movie? – I think it’s called Game 8, without looking it up. Is it worth seeking out?
Or, better yet, does anyone in the world have Jack Nicholson’s adaptation of Drive, He Said (Jeremy’s Lardner book)? – Are you willing to share?
Also, has anyone seen the DeLillo written movie? – I think it’s called Game 8, without looking it up. Is it worth seeking out?
Or, better yet, does anyone in the world have Jack Nicholson’s adaptation of Drive, He Said (Jeremy’s Lardner book)? – Are you willing to share?
The Road (the book) made me cry in public on a bus for the last twenty pages, and then come home and cry again in private. As in: silent big tears with some giant thug-type teenager sitting next to me. If the movie’s not going to give me a sinus headache, screw it.
The Road (the book) made me cry in public on a bus for the last twenty pages, and then come home and cry again in private. As in: silent big tears with some giant thug-type teenager sitting next to me. If the movie’s not going to give me a sinus headache, screw it.
btw, i was shocked to find, just now, that sam shepard is also in this all-story
btw, i was shocked to find, just now, that sam shepard is also in this all-story
Jaws
Jaws
Shining is re-dunkulous.
Shining is re-dunkulous.
Okay. Hal Ashby. So, I love “Harold and Maude” and “Shampoo”. I also like “Coming Home”….
This brings me to “Being There”. My main hangup with this movie, upon reflection, is that Peter Sellars is miscast. I am (was) just too familiar with him as a comic and manic genius (the Pink Panther movies, What’s New Pussycat?, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita) and could not “see” him as Chance the Gardener, which is an “understated” role. Who would have been better cast? I don’t know, I’d have to think about that and get back to ya.
Okay. Hal Ashby. So, I love “Harold and Maude” and “Shampoo”. I also like “Coming Home”….
This brings me to “Being There”. My main hangup with this movie, upon reflection, is that Peter Sellars is miscast. I am (was) just too familiar with him as a comic and manic genius (the Pink Panther movies, What’s New Pussycat?, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita) and could not “see” him as Chance the Gardener, which is an “understated” role. Who would have been better cast? I don’t know, I’d have to think about that and get back to ya.
I loved The Road but it did not make me cry. The only thing that’s ever made me all-out bawl is the movie The Misfits directed by John Huston, the scene(s) with the wild horses and Marilyn’s incredible “performance” (I don’t think she was acting, actually) toward the end.
And the harmonica playing/li’l bro on shoulders scene in Once Upon A Time in the West is intense.
And the music in Once Upon A Time in America – wistful and nostalgic for the “innocence” of childhood. Very moving. The kid eating the charlotte russe on the staircase….
I loved The Road but it did not make me cry. The only thing that’s ever made me all-out bawl is the movie The Misfits directed by John Huston, the scene(s) with the wild horses and Marilyn’s incredible “performance” (I don’t think she was acting, actually) toward the end.
And the harmonica playing/li’l bro on shoulders scene in Once Upon A Time in the West is intense.
And the music in Once Upon A Time in America – wistful and nostalgic for the “innocence” of childhood. Very moving. The kid eating the charlotte russe on the staircase….
the misfits is my fav, that scene is a killer.
the misfits is my fav, that scene is a killer.
Yeah this may not be the forum for it, but I’ll admit to some crying at books. I cry at, like, Twilight-type shit. (Although Twilight is still sitting on the to-read shelf.)
Yeah this may not be the forum for it, but I’ll admit to some crying at books. I cry at, like, Twilight-type shit. (Although Twilight is still sitting on the to-read shelf.)
no shame in being affected by things strongly. dickens used to weep as he wrote his own sad passages, and laugh hilariously as he wrote funny stuff. i kind of envy him his guileless affect
no shame in being affected by things strongly. dickens used to weep as he wrote his own sad passages, and laugh hilariously as he wrote funny stuff. i kind of envy him his guileless affect
COMING SOON from Paramount:
Ron Howard’s BLOOD MERIDIAN
starring
Steve Guttenberg as the Judge
Jennifer Connely as the Kid
COMING SOON from Paramount:
Ron Howard’s BLOOD MERIDIAN
starring
Steve Guttenberg as the Judge
Jennifer Connely as the Kid
i’m done loving books and then being decapitated watching the movies
instead of the road i’ll see the ninja assassin movie while crying about my lot in life
i’m done loving books and then being decapitated watching the movies
instead of the road i’ll see the ninja assassin movie while crying about my lot in life
I think Todd Field is directing it soon. Field isn’t a bad choice, if it must be.
I think he takes his cues from Mallick’s Days of Heaven a lot, which is about right.
I think Todd Field is directing it soon. Field isn’t a bad choice, if it must be.
I think he takes his cues from Mallick’s Days of Heaven a lot, which is about right.
game 6. it’s alright, but i’m not that into delilo to begin with, so, i may not be the best person to ask.
my dad liked it. but my dad likes delilo and yo la tengo, who score it, so that probably explains that.
it’s about the series, so it wouldn’t be game 8. since it’s the first to 4.
game 6. it’s alright, but i’m not that into delilo to begin with, so, i may not be the best person to ask.
my dad liked it. but my dad likes delilo and yo la tengo, who score it, so that probably explains that.
it’s about the series, so it wouldn’t be game 8. since it’s the first to 4.
This all makes a lot of sense. Except for the liking Yo la Tengo part.
This all makes a lot of sense. Except for the liking Yo la Tengo part.
the movie blade runner is so different fromt he book. i don’t know.
i really thought that the film of jesus’ son was a really interesting way of looking at the film, the way it strung the whole thing together in a linear narrative.
i thought the adaptation of fight club was good.
the movie blade runner is so different fromt he book. i don’t know.
i really thought that the film of jesus’ son was a really interesting way of looking at the film, the way it strung the whole thing together in a linear narrative.
i thought the adaptation of fight club was good.
Yes to Long Goodbye and Blade Runner.
Yes to Long Goodbye and Blade Runner.
Oh yes, man, I forgot about Full Metal Jacket. So good. The book was okay but honestly did not compare very well when I read it for a paper.
Oh yes, man, I forgot about Full Metal Jacket. So good. The book was okay but honestly did not compare very well when I read it for a paper.
i did not read the book but the movie “the last temptation of christ” i thought was really good.
i liked the jesus depicted in that movie.
i did not read the book but the movie “the last temptation of christ” i thought was really good.
i liked the jesus depicted in that movie.
The Road wasn’t a good book, so why should the movie be different? McCarthy hasn’t written a novel worth reading since The Crossing.
The Road wasn’t a good book, so why should the movie be different? McCarthy hasn’t written a novel worth reading since The Crossing.
2001 was a screenplay/300 page treatment first, novel came second.
2001 was a screenplay/300 page treatment first, novel came second.
I may, in a bit… :) Thanks.
I like you.
I may, in a bit… :) Thanks.
I like you.
Straw Dogs, yes.
Straw Dogs, yes.
‘pt anderson completely ripped it off with magnolia.’
How so?
‘pt anderson completely ripped it off with magnolia.’
How so?
Damn. Todd does have it now… weird. Seems to pass hands every year or so. I think Field could do something good with it, though.
Damn. Todd does have it now… weird. Seems to pass hands every year or so. I think Field could do something good with it, though.
i think they were actually written at the same time, no?
i think they were actually written at the same time, no?
Dunno, actually. Published after the film’s release, though, which could be purely tactical. Need to dip into my Kubrick library to find out…
Dunno, actually. Published after the film’s release, though, which could be purely tactical. Need to dip into my Kubrick library to find out…
well, the crux of magnolia is in all these unrelated things leading to a cataclysmic, supernatural event. and so too in shortcuts, the thread connecting a bunch of pieces gets pulled tight, ripping a hole in the barriers but also connected them in the context of this event. not only does something happen, but in both cases the event can be read as an expression of intensely vengeful emotion manifesting itself in nature.
also, pt anderson worked with altman a lot. maybe ‘ripped off’ was too harsh, but whtvr, that’s what i meant.
well, the crux of magnolia is in all these unrelated things leading to a cataclysmic, supernatural event. and so too in shortcuts, the thread connecting a bunch of pieces gets pulled tight, ripping a hole in the barriers but also connected them in the context of this event. not only does something happen, but in both cases the event can be read as an expression of intensely vengeful emotion manifesting itself in nature.
also, pt anderson worked with altman a lot. maybe ‘ripped off’ was too harsh, but whtvr, that’s what i meant.
did you guys know they’re remaking it. the guy that made the contender is directing it. his last movie had david schwimmer in it and now he’s ready to remake peckinpah. that guy from party of 5 is playing the lead. can’t wait!
did you guys know they’re remaking it. the guy that made the contender is directing it. his last movie had david schwimmer in it and now he’s ready to remake peckinpah. that guy from party of 5 is playing the lead. can’t wait!
hmmm. i am really fucking interested now too. let me know.
hmmm. i am really fucking interested now too. let me know.
i love me some peckinpah. wild bunch is still my favorite movie of all time. try to shit on it and i will eat your soul.
that movie invaded my mind for 3 fucking days after initial viewing.
like virgin blow job good.
holy shit.
i love me some peckinpah. wild bunch is still my favorite movie of all time. try to shit on it and i will eat your soul.
that movie invaded my mind for 3 fucking days after initial viewing.
like virgin blow job good.
holy shit.
shit this was me too. sorry. i need to pay attention.
shit this was me too. sorry. i need to pay attention.
according to the wiki, written at the same time
according to the wiki, written at the same time
Looking at the timeline in the Archive, now:
‘1964
April. Clarke leaves his home in Ceylon for his first meeting with Kubrick in New York. Kubrick suggests the unorthodox procedure of writing a novel together before writing a script, a project that was to take two years to complete.
…
December 25. Clarke finishes the first fifty-thousand-word draft of the novel, which ends at the Star Gate sequence. Kubrick is able to sell the idea for a film based on this draft to MGM and Cinerama. The film’s projected budget is $6 million.’
Looking at the timeline in the Archive, now:
‘1964
April. Clarke leaves his home in Ceylon for his first meeting with Kubrick in New York. Kubrick suggests the unorthodox procedure of writing a novel together before writing a script, a project that was to take two years to complete.
…
December 25. Clarke finishes the first fifty-thousand-word draft of the novel, which ends at the Star Gate sequence. Kubrick is able to sell the idea for a film based on this draft to MGM and Cinerama. The film’s projected budget is $6 million.’
Also:
‘June 14, 1965. Mariner IV comes within 6,200 miles of Mars and sends twenty-two photographs of the planet’s surface back to Earth. Kubrick contacts Lloyds of London to price an insurance policy against Martians being discovered before the release of his film.’
Also:
‘June 14, 1965. Mariner IV comes within 6,200 miles of Mars and sends twenty-two photographs of the planet’s surface back to Earth. Kubrick contacts Lloyds of London to price an insurance policy against Martians being discovered before the release of his film.’
&
‘June, 1966. Clarke returns to Borehamwood. He tries unsuccessfully to convince Kubrick to allow publication of the novel before the release of the film.’
&
‘June, 1966. Clarke returns to Borehamwood. He tries unsuccessfully to convince Kubrick to allow publication of the novel before the release of the film.’
my dad can’t like yo la tengo?
or that they scored a movie about a red sox fan?
my dad can’t like yo la tengo?
or that they scored a movie about a red sox fan?
This thread has inspired me to pick up the copy of “Stanley Kubrick, A Biography” by Vincent LoBrutto that has been lying around my house for ages. I am now going to read chapter 13, entitled “The Ultimate Trip”, about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Here’s a cute excerpt for you:
“In February 1964, Stanley Kubrick had lunch at Trader Vic’s with Roger Caras, who worked for Columbia pictures. Kubrick told Caras he was going to do a movie about extraterrestrials. Caras asked who was writing the screenplay. Kubrick explained he was in the process of reading every major science fiction writer…. “Why waste your time?” Caras asked Kubrick. “Why not just start with the best-Arthur C. Clarke?”….”But I understand he’s a recluse, a nut who lives in a tree in India someplace,” Kubrick replied. Caras told him that Clarke lived peacefully in Ceylon and agreed to contact him….
Caras cabled Clarke, saying: STANLEY KUBRICK_”DR. STRANGELOVE,” “PATHS OF GLORY,” ET CETERA, INTERESTED IN DOING FILM ON ET’S. INTERESTED IN YOU. ARE YOU INTERESTED? THOUGHT YOU WERE A RECLUSE.” Clarke immediately replied: “FRIGHTFULLY INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH ENFANT TERRIBLE STOP CONTACT MY AGENT STOP WHAT MAKES KUBRICK THINK I’M A RECLUSE.”
This thread has inspired me to pick up the copy of “Stanley Kubrick, A Biography” by Vincent LoBrutto that has been lying around my house for ages. I am now going to read chapter 13, entitled “The Ultimate Trip”, about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Here’s a cute excerpt for you:
“In February 1964, Stanley Kubrick had lunch at Trader Vic’s with Roger Caras, who worked for Columbia pictures. Kubrick told Caras he was going to do a movie about extraterrestrials. Caras asked who was writing the screenplay. Kubrick explained he was in the process of reading every major science fiction writer…. “Why waste your time?” Caras asked Kubrick. “Why not just start with the best-Arthur C. Clarke?”….”But I understand he’s a recluse, a nut who lives in a tree in India someplace,” Kubrick replied. Caras told him that Clarke lived peacefully in Ceylon and agreed to contact him….
Caras cabled Clarke, saying: STANLEY KUBRICK_”DR. STRANGELOVE,” “PATHS OF GLORY,” ET CETERA, INTERESTED IN DOING FILM ON ET’S. INTERESTED IN YOU. ARE YOU INTERESTED? THOUGHT YOU WERE A RECLUSE.” Clarke immediately replied: “FRIGHTFULLY INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH ENFANT TERRIBLE STOP CONTACT MY AGENT STOP WHAT MAKES KUBRICK THINK I’M A RECLUSE.”
That’s awesome. Thanks, mimi!
That’s awesome. Thanks, mimi!
i remember clarke saying he cried after seeing 2001 (because he didn’t like it and it made him saddy waddy)
i remember clarke saying he cried after seeing 2001 (because he didn’t like it and it made him saddy waddy)