“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar” - Henry David Thoreau
I’ve read “Midnight’s Children”. It is pretty cool. Now I read it in bed over many days. It was pretty ragged at the start but it was falling apart by the end. It’s a great book. It is also by any standards something I would call unfilmable.
So they filmed it. They did.
Get it via Amazon. It’s worth reading. Don’t see the movie.
Posted in: Beyond Belief, Judean Peoples Front, Literature.
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paraphrased from Lord Vetinari
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On unfilmable films, Cloud Atlas. I can’t even imagine how that could possibly work.
I thought “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was unfilmable. But fair enough, they made a pretty good fist of it, mainly by sticking very closely to Hunter Thompson’s words.
I read ‘Life of Pi’ and thought that would be unfilmable. But I reckoned without CGI, and the trailer’s stunning!