Comments on: And Zac Ephron as Mario Incandenza

By: MacD

MacD — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:18:42 +0000

Huh, I never noticed before this discussion how “Himself” is kind of like a film credit for JOI. As if his whole life was just performance, but only as the one character. (Kind of like Michael Cera?)

By: Samantha B

Samantha B — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:18:16 +0000

“The Royal Tenenbaums” is exactly how I described the first 100 pages to a friend. I’m off now to read the compare/contrast link. Thanks, alicat.

By: Mrs. Kennedy

Mrs. Kennedy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:23:05 +0000

No, I don’t think there was a punchline! I was just tossing inappropriate casting ideas into the mix.

By: Matt Mc

Matt Mc — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:16:38 +0000

I’m wondering if I missed some punchline about the Meryl Streep thing.

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:32:53 +0000

Actually, I’d like to see the film Infinite Jest, not a film adaptation of the book Infinite Jest. Yes, I want to see the debilitating, addicting, mind-numbing film.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:18:25 +0000

So interesting that so many other people are thinking about this book as a film! The experience of reading this book for my has been very synesthetic: putting it down is like waking from a bizarre dream. This week, my IJ bookclub partner and I watched The Royal Tenenbaums, just to check in with Wes Anderson’s story of unhappy families, feral prodigy and tennis disappointments. Anderson does create the color-satuarated, sensitively quirky world I imagine when I read about dental hygiene instruction during ETA buddy meetings, the grad. student listening to Madame Psychosis in the brain of the roof, dinner at the Incandenza household.

By: Pete Mandik

Pete Mandik — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:41:34 +0000

Yes, definitely Eliott Smith in the soundtrack.

By: jackd

jackd — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:07:07 +0000

non-fatal attempts in the history of cinema to adapt a beloved and word-tastic classic novel

While I wouldn’t complain if anyone says the book is no classic, John Irving’s The World According to Garp certainly fits the other criteria. I thought the movie did an excellent job of capturing the spirit of Irving’s novel.

By: ray gunn

ray gunn — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:55:52 +0000

IJ is unfilmable. That’s the point. But if we’re talking about unicorns and other impossible things, then both the director and the cast would need to be unknowns for it not to completely fail because of positive/negative preassociations and egomongering.

By: Snarky Amber

Snarky Amber — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:08:01 +0000

To Kill a Mockingbird is always the one I go to when I want to think of a good book adaptation. Also, The Shawshank Redemption is one of the very few movies that is actually in many ways better than the novella.