And tremendous advancements have been made in film techniques, hopefully some aspiring genius will undertake to give this brilliant novel another shot at the big screen, where the film styles can approach the writing styles!
If anyone has several million dollars to spare, I'm willing to take up the challenge! LOL
2 years ago, someone did.
I haven't seen either production, but in 2003 Sean Walsh directed "Bloom", which is an adaptation of the Joyce novel.
It has a decent cast, and I liked the storyboards I saw, but it has a poor rating on IMDB (under 6). I don't know how to get a hold of it, but will try to get around to seeing both.
Interestingly, in the late 1920's Joyce thought that language translations of his novel were impossible but that it might do well in film translation.
I saw this movie in the late '60s and absolutely loved it.
shareI saw the recent "Bloom" movie - it was excellent. Great performances, very touching.
sharei rate the 1967 version far higher than the recent Bloom. Bloom was too preciouses by half and felt like a Hallmark type TV production. not awful but just not as much as i had hoped.
shareI watched this for the second time and the first I found it hard to follow but enjoyed the postmodern style, this time I understood it much better and fought it to be little short of a masterpiece. Extremely original (I confess I haven't read the book, well not all of it), very creative, deeply intellectual and very involving. I'm stumped to know why it has such a low score, my guess is that it's from people who don't know the book, or find the film too complex?
shareNo, I think it's the opposite. People who've read the book can see it's faults. I don't hate it, but its tone is too sentimental for me, it betrays much of the source material.
shareare you implying that you don't like this version? if so, why? and, more specifically, what fantastical new advancement in film technique would you use to improve or remake this film version?
that said, aren't contemporary films already weighed down by digital technique? that may be a matter of opinion, of course, but I maintain that a book like Ulysses is best filmed in a very simplistic way by using traditional acting, directing, filming, editing, etc. Any SFX or digital technique is fluff, and would only clutter the viewing experience.
and, also, a film version of a literature novel is never ever going to be as good or precise as what is in the author's head when he wrote it, or the reader's head when they read it. what I have in my head of my experience of reading Ulysses is a trillion miles away from this film version... yet, I really liked this film version! I honestly can imagine any film version coming close or replicating my own personal experience with the book. If that were to ever happen, my head probably would (and should) explode.
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