Re: OT: What movies have you seen recently?


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ahmward <nospam.ahmward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> ahmward wrote:
>> Read the story by Annie Proulx. Larry McMurtrey did a great job >> with
>> it. This is real literature not a screenplay made up for >> Hollywood.
>
> Despite jjjjjulie's rudeness, she made me consider that perhaps > this
> is
> just one of those pieces of literature that you read and you love > so
> much, as long as the movie is true to the story, and brings the
> visuals
> in your head to life, you'll love it too? And if the movie diverges
> from the story you read, you can't stand it... it's like it would > be
> sacriligious or something. And if so, *that* I can respect, because > I
> have had that experience myself. In fact, I'm really afraid to > watch
> Memoirs of a Geisha for exactly that same reason! :-)
>
> This thread also reminds me of Bridges of Madison County. I read > that
> book when it first came out, and I have to say that I thought it > was
> the biggest piece of schlock... it wasn't the story... it was the
> writing. The writing was so bad, it got in the way for me. My > mother
> and I both were completely bewildered why all our friends were so > in
> love with it. We'd read sections over the phone to each other that > we
> thought were particularly bad, particularly the dialog, and laugh
> about
> how the writing wanted to make us gag, it was so ridiculous!!
>
> BUT... the movie?? With Meryl Streep?? WOW. I *loved* that movie!!
> Without the bad writing getting in the way, the story itself -
> setting,
> characterization, plot, etc - was incredible. To me it was always
> meant
> to be a movie, not a novel.
>
> So for you, ahmward, I'll give Brokeback Mountain a read. :-)
>
> jen


This is the book I ordered today. The original story was published in
the New Yorker in 1997 but my husband said he read it in a book he
borrowed from someone he worked with a few years ago. That's why I
couldn't find it when I was looking for it this afternoon.
http://tinyurl.com/btkgf

I have two English degrees, a BA from UCLA and a MA with an emphasis in
American literature from CSULB. I just don't let them get in the way of
my enjoyment of a good movie or book.

Audrey 

Did you know Augie Coppola, Nicolas Cage's dad, who taught in
the English Dept. at CSULB?  A.

No, but I must say I had the best professors there. Back in the olden days when I was there they were into new writers such as Buckowski. One of my favorite professors was Gerald Lockin. He could lecture for hours without notes and he was excellent. Tarkanian was the basketball coach when I was there and then we both ended up in Fresno :)

Audrey 

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