RE: Filmed Versions of JDS's Work

Amber Raley (araley@agnesscott.edu)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:29:53 -0500 

 
While it may be that we (speaking for those in agreement) would find it
difficult to see and support a filmed version of any of Salingers work, I
would like to interject that I personally was amazed by Pari, the oft
meantioned Iranian version of F&Z. I think the difference lies in the fact
that with the story transplanted to a different culture it alowed me to see
a different angle on the Glass saga. Because I think so much of who the
Glass family is and isn't is wrapped up in that New York appartment
(complete with painters).

i could live in hope...

Amber
-----Original Message-----
From: citycabn
To: Salinger
Sent: 2/19/99 12:53 PM
Subject: Filmed Versions of JDS's Work

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.