I read Tim's drafts as he was writing, sometimes they came in at 11pm, sometimes at 5am, and so I read it from start to finish a half a dozen times, each time worrying about his poor overtired brain, and mostly just amazed at the sharpness of the work.
I believe wholeheartedly that Heinlein's fans will appreciate Tim's adapatation. Without giving away how he accomplishes things, I can say that he hits all of Heinlein's themes with a quick jab right to the vein.
He explains the free market ideas, and the culture on Luna very naturally through the plot, and this thing that Tim does, telling a whole story in a frame. So it's visually rich as well as hilariously funny, until he stops your bellylaugh with a kick to the gut in all the right places.
Wyoh is less kitten and more tiger, which pleases me.
There's a surrealness to it kind of like a Gilliam film, with a touch of Fight Club threaded though.
I find some new thing everytime I read it, and it's one of the few scripts that I've printed out to put in my bookcase so I can read it again, like a book.
I told Tim that he managed to become a sieve and drain out Heinlein's spooge while trapping the good stuff. I always thought Heinlein wrote Moon with one hand on the typewriter and the other in his crotch.
Tim kept both hands on the keyboard. It's focused on themes withouit getting preachy, and the character's relationships to one another without getting wanky.
I really hope it makes it to screen, under a director who can do it justice.
Just very proud of Tim, and honored to have been able to read it.
And that's all I have to say about it. For now.
Has anybody checked Allyson to make sure she isn't a pod person?
She's not! Tim just did a really great job!
I believe wholeheartedly that Heinlein's fans will appreciate Tim's adapatation.
Though you totally do not have to know the book to appreciate the script. Because I never got around to reading it and still thought it rocked.
BTW, do you want the book back? I don't feel the need to read it now.
BTW, do you want the book back?
Oh yeah, I want to do a compare and contrast.
I need to take a lot of notes for Tim's biography. I thought I was gonna have to wait a longer time, but if he keeps writing screenplays, he'll have about 2 marbles left rolling around in his head in the next 18 months and won't be able to sue me. I could make shit up.
Tim was the son of migrant farmworkers. He taught himself to read and write when he was 10, after overcoming the whooping cough which left him with one lung and a terrible grizzly bear attack which left him with only half a face...
Luckily, before the bear could kill him it succumbed to the whooping cough.
a terrible grizzly bear attack which left him with only half a face...
You'll have to find all the pictures of Tim that aren't side views and destroy them. Or, work plastic surgery into the story, which, as I think about it, would probably be a lot easier.
I would have thought it was impossible to make me like Wyoh, but if anyone could do it, it would be Tim.
I am more jealous of Allyson and Kristen right now than I've ever been.
Also, I definitely broke 36 hours a few times in colege. My favorite was the time I had to stay up all night to finish a project, stumbled back to my dorm after class was over (the 34th hour) and got waylaid by some friends who made me drink beer.
Nothing quite as fun as beer after 34 hours of wakefulness.
Does anybody remember where the "spicy brains" thing came from?
It was from that web cartoon with the cats. You know the one.
