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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
2 movies? Seriously? Had they not wrung enough cash out of this franchise?
Anghus, read the last book. The last book demanded to be made into two movies. The fans (Hello, ME!) also demanded it be made into two books unlike Breaking Dawn, which needs to be a 30 min film involving only sex and vampire fighting.
i’m excited for the grand finale(s). i’ve read every HP book out loud to my boy starting when he was just a wee nipper, he’s grown up with harry, hermione, ron and the gang – both the novel and film versions – and it feels like our grand adventure together is now coming to a bitter-sweet end.
and as much as there have been times i’d like to throttle JK rowling for her difficult-to-read-out-loud stilted prose and long-windedness in need of pruning by a stern editor with a sharp scalpel (getting thru the incredibly thick and at times excruciatingly dull ‘order of the phoenix’ out loud nearly killed me), i’ve found myself more than once sitting on the boy’s bed in that little pool of lamplight with a tear in my eye for a beloved character having died in our imaginations, our hearts having been so drawn into that wondrous wizarding world and the epic but very personal, difficult and selfless battle to save it from the ravages of evil totalitarianism in the name of love, family and freedom.
in my eyes the HP films have varied in degrees of excellence from competent to brilliant, but overall they’ve grown in stature as consistently decent adaptations and compelling family entertainment, having taken on a life of their own and destined to go down in cinema history as one of the most successful and beloved fantasy film franchises/series, surely. i do hope they really wrap it all up with a compelling bang for the gang, anticipation is setting in.
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speaking of bang, i have no idea where the production has split the story, but there’s a certain point about half-way thru the novel after the trinity – back together again – escapes the set-up/attack of the death eaters at the lovegood residence in a rather spectacular fashion that seems like a natural place for an ‘intermission’, as the story changes tack a bit from that point on. i wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the spot, but of course i don’t know how the story has been adapted for the screen so i could be totally wrong there. i think one thing is certain re: ‘deathly H’ part 1: be prepared to spend a good deal of time in a tent.
I always figured they would end part one when they find Luna in the basement.
SPOILER
They’re ending it with Voldemort taking the elder wand from Dumbledore.
Okay, I’m a geek. Whatever.
never read the books. loathed the first 2 movies. loved azkaban. loved goblet of fire. order of the phoenix and half blood prince were remarkably average.
i know people who have explained why the final book deserves 2 pictures, but i also know the same people told me they have cut so many large chunks and subplots from the series already that giving them time to wrap everything up seems kind of unnecessary.
Anghus, some book fans are a bit ridiculous when it comes to what is cut and not cut in these films. I have had discussions with them and they want the most mundane stuff in there and the conversations with these people always leave me wondering why some folks lack the ability to learn the word; “ADAPTATION.”
Nevertheless, The Deathly Hallows, unlike Goblet, OotP, and The Half-Blood Prince, is not a book with a lot of padding. This leaves use with one long book that’s super economical with it’s story, even if it’s long, and that’s why you need two movies. Without the two movies, a lot of story would be cut out, and that would just ruin one amazing story.
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