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Re: Don’t Care About The Book

Cherri Dalton — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:09:10 -0000

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Re: Don’t Care About The Book

Rory Mach — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:11:17 -0000

Mea Maxima Culpa. Sort of a Jungian slip! Thanks for the correction...

Re: Don’t Care About The Book

pasquinn — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:20:13 -0000

Shouldn't that be Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides?

Re: Don’t Care About The Book

Rory Mach — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:46:50 -0000

Which, neatly enough, is one of the themes of Old Joy, as well. How we all end up "departing from the original" over time -- with or without admitting it.

It's been done in writing often enough - first and maybe still best in Wordsworth -- but it's interesting to see it done well in the time and space of a movie.

Re: Don’t Care About The Book

Chuck — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:21:09 -0000

Old Joy is one of my favorite recent movies. I haven't read the short story, but the film itself is a gem, and Oldham and London carry the film well.

As someone who was trained in an English department but eventually did research on film and media studies, I'm fascinated by the issue of adaptation, and quite often I find that the best adaptations are the ones that acknowledge how they depart from the original text (and, of course, Adaptation is a clever negotiation of the problematics of adaptation).