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Question to big DFW fans only...

posted 12 years ago by Zero_Point_Zero
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...what did you think? Will this movie make me want to murder someone? Or is it a tasteful and somewhat sensitive taking-on of the book's stories?

Because the trailer made me violently angry. Seems like a very off-based slant. As if the screenwriter misread the stories severely.

DFW is a very important figure in my life and work and I am, admittedly, a little sensitive. If INFINITE JEST is ever made, I don't know if I'll be able to handle how misguided it will be. Inherently, it can't be done. Unless, as DFW himself said, it was a Warholian epic length film. Even then, doubtful.

Idea for screenwriters lucky enough to be working today. Grab yourself a god damned brain and write your own stories.

[–] zurichpoet 12 years ago

TASTE?

Dude was stuck in Tucson, AZ, learning the moral of the line.
Get: Georges Simenon's "Maigret and the Coroner".

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[–] Lunar_Park 11 years ago

I think he should have 'shown' the actions of the supposed hideous men instead of interviewing actors who boringly recited DFW's prose.

I don't understand how you believe Krasinski misinterpreted this unless because he made the interviewer a female.

Had I turned this book of DFW's essays into a film, I would have shown a huge "Q" (black background) before each man and then showed the actions described in their interviews.

This movie came across as actors just reciting the prose - like an audio version filmed. Lame, lame....

I'm just happy I saw it because until then, I hadn't heard of DFW and now, I love him. Devastating he took his own life but most writers struggle internally - I know because I'm also a writer.

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[–] jabberttp 10 years ago

DFW = Dallas/Fort Worth. This thread baffled me.

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