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Better than Dostoevsky?


Okay so we all know that Dostoevsky was a big inspiration to Harry in this film (see: the poster), and presumably to Franco, but what I'm wondering is this: What if, on some level, Dostoevsky actually took inspiration from Franco instead of the other way around? Hear me out -- I'm not saying that he traveled in a time machine to read Palo Alto or anything like that. That would be crazy. But I do feel that the great artists, of any age, sense each other intuitively -- just like the dinosaurs sense other dinosaurs, as we've seen in the vastly underrated Theodore Rex, which allows them to solve dinocides as required. So I just feel like it's not out of the question that Dostoevsky, as he wrote, say, Crime and Punishment in total frenzy, had a sense of something -- a vision, perhaps, of a devilishly handsome young man conversing with another, in an ape costume -- and took that something, in his own way, to create a pretty good book about murder and becoming really Christian, though I DO think The Ape is better. Probably in another 3 years or so, they'll be teaching Franco instead of, I don't know, Turgenev anyways, and I'll be the first to sign up for such a class. I very much believe in continuing education.

Thoughts?

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