[lit-ideas] Re: Military mercenaries and Greene and movies
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:46:45 -0500
TP:
Is it just me, or does anyone else enjoy most film adaptations of Greene's
work while having little interest in the novels?<<
I read Graham Greene when I was in high school and loved him then. I read
"The Heart Of The Matter", "The End Of the Affair", "A Burnt Out Case" and
"The Power And The Glory." I've only seen one movie made from his novels
and that was "The End Of The Affair." The novel was much better as I
remember it. I don't know if I've read the "Quiet American" -- I think
not, I think it was "The Ugly American" that I read -- or maybe I've read
both. All I can remember is getting angry at the American. I don't know
that I would like GG at this stage of my life. Now my tastes are strongly
towards Pynchon -- when I can work up the energy to read him that is. He
ain't easy.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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From: "Teemu Pyyluoma" <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:47 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Military mercenaries and Greene and movies
Something just hit me, I really don't understand what you are talking about,
some bodyguards working for Blacksomething corporation involved in a
shooting controversy? Which speaks volumes of how Iraq war is covered here,
that is increasingly less, and I'd bet the same for most parts of the world.
People just simply map Iraq with Czechnya, Gaza and other perpetual war
places. From reporter's perpective, why risk your life covering a war people
are tired of hearing about?
Speaking of boredom, looking for some light literary entertainment, I picked
up Graham Greene's Brighton Rock. I am about half-way through and unlikely
to finish. Is it just me, or does anyone else enjoy most film adaptations of
Greene's work while having little interest in the novels? I guess what I am
after is that it seems to me that morality plays make fine cinema and boring
books, but is this about how we approach different mediums or something
integral to them? How a novel like The Quiet American about Iraq would be
received today? And if it was a movie?
Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
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