To Dream
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." Shirley Jackson
posted by Joseph K at 3:45 PM
Friday, July 28, 2006
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." Shirley Jackson
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4 Comments:
brilliant book. deeply flawed remake. have you seen the original black and white?
I have seen the Black and White film many, many, many years ago. I even like the remake for different reasons, of course - because I love the imagery and am also partial to Lily Taylor. She was brilliant in I shot Andy Warhol and has been my favorite Indie Princess for years. She was in an amazing, existential Vampire film playing a graduate student in Philosophy. Christopher Walken has an amazing role as a Vampire Guru who preaches fasting (Vampire vegetarianism) and forebearance. The end (as usual with contemporary films) falls apart into bloody chaos, but it is still worht watching.
n.b. The Lily Taylor film was called The Addiction.
lily taylor IS completely brill in everything i've seen. she even made lemonade out of the lemon of a scipt she was given in the remake. The house was also not as oppressive as i felt it should have been. OVER the top, though interesting for other reasons. the biggest disappointment-being such a fan of the book- is the unecessary departure from the original material and the annoying "hyperbreathiness" of zeta-jones. pre-emphazema just isn't sexy.
I too am a selective fan of the vampire mythos, but not much is done well. jude law in The Wisdom of Crocodiles was unique. The low budget, The Habit, made the obvious connection between addiction and bloodlust in a unique way and Whitley Striebers Book "The Hunger" (NOT THE MOVIE, NOR THE NOVEL SEQUEL) is to me the an infinitely readable artful ALT-explanation. Rice's work is beautful in that it evokes a time and place so well-even in her mayfair witch series, but after the middle of LeStat, I had had enough.
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