| Book/movie [message #291715] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 19:23 |
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I don't know if mot people here have read Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Despair"
("Otchayanyie" is the Russian title IIRC, "a far more sonorous howl"), or
seen the mid-70s movie with Dirk Bogard as Hermann (Fassbinder direfcted
it -- odd amount of gratuitous female nudliness for him but wtf). Now I'm
sure anyone who has read the book (windy as a Santa Ana -- two pages alone
to get us to find out what the "miracle" is) and seen this movie is going to
have a lot to moan about since Fassbinder took quite a few liberties (like
the ending, where Hermann gives his final paragraph in despair, while in the
book he stays true to the very end). But I like the book and I like the
movie.
I wouldn't get my panties in a bunch if movie/Hermann said something about
"something in the water" made the women who like gingered chocolate into
"fastidious little prigs."
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