Random dot-connecting
Apparently a screenplay for "The Price of Salt" aka "CAROL" by Claire Morgan aka Patricia Highsmith is in the works.
After the DWP movie was such a pleasant surprise regarding the book-movie relationship, I fear that this one may fall into the regular category of novel-based movies falling short of doing their literary template justice.
The screenplay is being developed by Phyllis Nagy for Film4 (UK/Ireland TV channel).
I am curious, though, and will do whatever it takes to get to see the film should it ever be actually produced and broadcasted.
On another note I realized how similar the CAROL concept is to some DWP fanfiction. XD
The novel's two main characters are Therese Belivet, a lonely young woman, and Carol, the elegant stranger Therese encounters one day at her temporary job in a New York department store. Therese is just starting out her adult life in Manhattan, and looking for her chance to break through into her dream job as an apprentice theater set designer.
On a long and boring day working in the toy department of the department store, Therese is struck by an elegant and beautiful woman in her thirties, whom she serves. The woman, Carol, gives her address to Therese in order to have her purchases delivered. On an impulse, Therese sends Carol a card to her home address. Carol, who is going through a difficult separation and divorce and is herself quite lonely, unexpectedly responds, and the two begin to spend time together. Therese develops a strong attachment to Carol, but she is unsure how to understand her feelings. Therese's boyfriend accuses Therese of having a "schoolgirl crush" but Therese knows it is more than that: she is in love with Carol.
Carol's husband, Harge, is suspicious of Carol's relationship with Therese, whom he meets briefly when Therese stays over at Carol's house. Carol had previously admitted to Harge that she had a short-lived homosexual relationship with her best friend, Abby. Harge is furious, and takes the couple's daughter to live with him, pending the final divorce proceedings. [...] The women are unaware that Carol's husband has hired a Private Investigator to follow them and collect any evidence that would incriminate Carol as homosexual in the upcoming custody hearings.
(Quoted from the Wikipedia article.)
I'm tempted now to go through my .txt copy and change the names and see how it reads. XD
After the DWP movie was such a pleasant surprise regarding the book-movie relationship, I fear that this one may fall into the regular category of novel-based movies falling short of doing their literary template justice.
The screenplay is being developed by Phyllis Nagy for Film4 (UK/Ireland TV channel).
I am curious, though, and will do whatever it takes to get to see the film should it ever be actually produced and broadcasted.
On another note I realized how similar the CAROL concept is to some DWP fanfiction. XD
The novel's two main characters are Therese Belivet, a lonely young woman, and Carol, the elegant stranger Therese encounters one day at her temporary job in a New York department store. Therese is just starting out her adult life in Manhattan, and looking for her chance to break through into her dream job as an apprentice theater set designer.
On a long and boring day working in the toy department of the department store, Therese is struck by an elegant and beautiful woman in her thirties, whom she serves. The woman, Carol, gives her address to Therese in order to have her purchases delivered. On an impulse, Therese sends Carol a card to her home address. Carol, who is going through a difficult separation and divorce and is herself quite lonely, unexpectedly responds, and the two begin to spend time together. Therese develops a strong attachment to Carol, but she is unsure how to understand her feelings. Therese's boyfriend accuses Therese of having a "schoolgirl crush" but Therese knows it is more than that: she is in love with Carol.
Carol's husband, Harge, is suspicious of Carol's relationship with Therese, whom he meets briefly when Therese stays over at Carol's house. Carol had previously admitted to Harge that she had a short-lived homosexual relationship with her best friend, Abby. Harge is furious, and takes the couple's daughter to live with him, pending the final divorce proceedings. [...] The women are unaware that Carol's husband has hired a Private Investigator to follow them and collect any evidence that would incriminate Carol as homosexual in the upcoming custody hearings.
(Quoted from the Wikipedia article.)
I'm tempted now to go through my .txt copy and change the names and see how it reads. XD