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Edvard:
I pray nobody in Hollywood gets a wild hair to start cinematizing Kafka.
-Edvard (December 17, 2014, 12:12 AM)
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@Edvard - Too late!
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8)
-40hz (December 17, 2014, 08:48 PM)
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As good (or bad) as those films may be, at least The Trial was ripe for it, there was definite beginning, middle and end. Though as with almost ALL Kafka, you don't really know if it's the end or not, and the middle is like watching your fingers getting pinched in a vice one. quarter. turn. at. a. time.
I'm talking about his shorter, possibly more existential stuff, like In the Penal Colony (actually, that one could be made into one of those "torture porn" movies so popular lately), Josephine the Singer, or (shudders) The Burrow. When I first discovered Kafka, I immediately grasped what he was doing. You didn't want to read it, because it was so long and drawn-out and tortuous to simply turn the page, but you did, and you kept doing it even though it was no less tortuous than the last 5 pages, because dammit, it HAD TO END SOMEHOW...
Yeah, I can see DreamWorks making The Burrow as a 3-hour epic of a cute CGI rodent constantly improving his burrow with the background hum getting louder. And louder. And louder. And louder. And...
"Lying in my heap of Earth I can naturally dream of all sorts of things, even of an understanding with the beast, though I know well enough that no such thing can happen, and at the moment when we see each other, more, at that instant we merely guess at each other's presence, we shall both blindly bare our claws and teeth, neither of us a second before or after the other, both of us filled with a new and different hunger, even if we should already be gorged to bursting."
"But all remained unchanged."
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On second thought, no. Dear God, no.
P.S. you missed this one:
MilesAhead:
[/i] (actually, that one could be made into one of those "torture porn" movies so popular lately),
-Edvard (January 04, 2015, 09:37 PM)
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Torture porn? You mean when the talent tries to read their lines like it's Macbeth? I hate it when that happens. :)
Edvard:
Torture porn? You mean when the talent tries to read their lines like it's Macbeth? I hate it when that happens. :)
-MilesAhead (January 05, 2015, 09:51 AM)
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UGH!! Like "Canoe" did in "My Private Idaho"? Gag. And gag again.
No, I'm talking about films like the "Saw" and "Hostel" series, "Martyrs", that sort of thing. I've never seen them, but they've been mentioned enough that I know I won't be anytime soon. But yeah, read "In the Penal Colony" and imagine what that would look like on the big screen, stretched to modern movie run-times (what's the average now, 2 hours? 2 and a half? Jeez...) and look up the word "disquieting".
:'(
wraith808:
The Equalizer with Denzel Washington.
A solid action flick. To me, it was very reminiscent of Man on Fire- which isn't a bad thing. It does give nods to the original series, but actually hails more in the way of Bronson's revenge fantasy flicks. But it does keep a brain... and a funny piece of trivia- The script originally has no back story about Robert, so Denzel Washington contributed much to the character's background and back story including Robert having obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In addition to his daily physical and fight training before filming, Washington met and interviewed several real-life OCD people as to gain insights of how to play that disorder correctly.
If you're a fan of those types of movies, then this will suit you fine.
wraith808:
UGH!! Like "Canoe" did in "My Private Idaho"? Gag. And gag again.
-Edvard (January 05, 2015, 07:31 PM)
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You mean "My Own Private Idaho" with River Phoenix? I just thought that it was a nod to the fact that the whole script was a retelling of Henry IV.
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