Ooh! I noticed Shaun of the Dead is on the SciFi channel tonight!
I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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Theodosia - Oct 28, 2006 7:01:12 am PDT #5205 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
beekaytee - Oct 28, 2006 7:07:22 am PDT #5206 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Debet-That is such a good point about the widower being the one to live. So deeply sad in the existential, damn EVerybody lost in this scenario, sort of way. Good catch, I never even thought about that.
DebetEsse - Oct 28, 2006 9:40:38 am PDT #5207 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Thanks. That and Hugh's character being unable to drown himself in the sink both really struck me (the latter in retrospect)
eleanor - Oct 28, 2006 9:45:19 am PDT #5208 of 10001
There are no pan asian supermarkets down in hell, so you can't buy Golden Boy peanuts.
I would also love to do a Western literary classic that has been interpreted by different cultures.
Does Carmen count as a literary classic? Because then you have lots of adaptations to choose from and most of them are musicals. I know there have been some recent versions from Africa ( Karmen Gei from Senegal and another one from South Africa)... and looking through IMDB it seems every country is represented.
megan walker - Oct 28, 2006 11:03:52 am PDT #5209 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Does Carmen count as a literary classic? Because then you have lots of adaptations to choose from and most of them are musicals. I know there have been some recent versions from Africa ( Karmen Gei from Senegal and another one from South Africa)... and looking through IMDB it seems every country is represented.
Oooh, that is a good idea. Not only is it French, but I've actually seen multiple versions (including one with disco lighting that was frightful) and own a bi-lingual copy of the libretto. And I do really want to include more from Africa.
megan walker - Oct 28, 2006 11:11:57 am PDT #5210 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also, thanks everyone for the suggestions. Keep 'em coming!
I'm feverishly looking up things on the internet and will hopefully be able to put together a decent proposal by Monday morning.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2006 11:44:59 am PDT #5211 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
MTV also did Carmen-- a hip hopera.
Scrappy - Oct 29, 2006 11:39:16 am PST #5212 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
In The Prestige, I think the wife killed herself because she figured out about the brothers, and the thought the trick was worth sending aonoene elso home with her and their daughter on a regular basis was the ultimate humiliation.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 29, 2006 12:07:12 pm PST #5213 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Though my impression was that both men were "Daddy" to the little girl. They did make the point of children being able to see through magician's tricks. So, horrible for Alfred's wife to realize the truth about why her husband seemed to run hot and cold, but I think for their daughter everything was normal.
SailAweigh - Oct 29, 2006 2:44:06 pm PST #5214 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Just saw The Departed. Wow. Just, wow. It's funny how much suspense there can be in a movie when you already know who done it. I have to admit, like ita, I got to where a lot of the bloodshed led to laughter. It was the only way, after a while, to deal with it. I haven't seen Leo in anything recently, so I have to say I was pretty impressed with him in this movie. But then, I was impressed with Damon and Wahlberg, too. Jack, was just Jack. I don't think he can give a performance anymore without a side of ham. But then, all his characters like ham, so it's not a stretch.