I can hold my head still
Yesterday earned the first L to stain my engagement calendar since December 31st. The less said, the better.
Anyway, because a number of people expressed interest in seeing it, here's the proposal that sold Daughter of Hounds. If you've not yet read the novel and intend to, there's enough similarity between the proposal and the actual novel that ( Read more... )
Anyway, because a number of people expressed interest in seeing it, here's the proposal that sold Daughter of Hounds. If you've not yet read the novel and intend to, there's enough similarity between the proposal and the actual novel that ( Read more... )
You realize, of course, that this will be the synposis for the movie should it ever have the resounding misfortune (i.e. Greek-Tragedy-Level "misfortune") to be raped by a mainstream producer and director. Yea, I shall even endeavor to channel a film critic from the year 2021 to comment further on this.
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No, that was just too awful. There are some things I cannot inflict on humanity. Suffice it to say that there were mentions of Ashton Kutcher as Deacon, Dancy as a Secret Agent, and...(shudder) Gun Kata.
Brian DePalma would just make everything needlessly Freudian. I've seen a review of The Black Dahlia which was evenly tempered between scathing and insightful. They pretty much washed the movie as any sort of narrative but instead, in typical DePalma fashion, focused on the film production as some kind of analogy to DePalma's vision of Noir and Hollywood history in general. In fact, several aspects of the film were reviewed to have been intentionally sabotaged (Josh Harnett as a noir cop?), or made completely untenable in order to distance the audience from the story.
I don't much remember it, but I believe it was excerpted in Utne Reader, I'd guess the Sept/October issue.
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