Filmed Versions of JDS's Work
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:53:31 -0800
If there ever are films of Catcher and the Glass Family (God and Mrs.
Salinger forbid), please tell me you have NO desire to see them.
Personally, could not even stand the drawings of the characters in the Time
magazine cover story on JDS in '61. Hated that very old pre-Bantam (U.S.)
paperback edition of Catcher with Holden on the cover. At least the Little,
Brown hardback comes with just the carousel horse. And of course the Bantams
and current paperbacks (thanks to JDS himself) are sans drawings. (An aside:
in The Inverted Forest the new Ray Ford book of verse is titled: Man on a
Carousel. Hmmm.)
Let's allow them (the characters) exist in our *imaginations* for all time
without some director/producer/agent coming in and superimposing some
actor's face.
Yes, of course, no one is going to drag me to the movie. But I even don't
want to stumble across fractional-second snippets on TV, nor the print ads.
Or am I just showing my age here by no longer genuflecting at the altar of
films/movies/flicks?
(The only filmed version of Lolita *I* want to see is the one where Nabokov
reads the entire novel out loud. And, to change the focus a bit, even
*knowing* that a film exists called "Kafka" makes me cringe.)
Oh well, grumpy, perhaps more than slightly crazed uncle Bruce will now shut
up.