Re: Heroin, the movie
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:07:19 +1000
My God, I'm sorry to be rude about this, but is everyone serious? I thought
`okay, one person thinking I was really talking about Heroin (not Herion) -
I can handle that'. But *three* ? We get all the shit from America and all
the shit from England (and they have the hide to complain when we
occasionally send someone a little shitty back, like Olivia Newton John or
Tina Arena). We get Jerry Springer. We get Roseanne. We get NBC news. We
get Entertainment Tonight. We get `Friends', six months late so all the
storylines are blown for us. We get crappy sitcoms that only lasted one
season in America. What relevance to Australian culture has this? Nada.
(then again, neither, it could be argued, does Nada (: ) What I'm saying is
- we do have heroin over here guys and I just can't believe that anyone
could assume we didn't. Yes, we saw Trainspotting here, everybody did,
Irvine Welsh even came out for the writer's festival last year.
And by the way Jim, I certainly didn't confirm your opinion of Nabokov as a
jackass. Quite the opposite I confirmed my opinion of Adrian Lyne and
Jeremy Irons as jackasses. As I travelled home from the movie I hoped, with
no little fear, that my second-favourite book wouldn't be ruined for my by
the movie. I grabbed it from my book case, and as soon as I plunged into
that wonderful cascade of Nabokov's sublime prose I knew that Everything
Would Be OK. If anything, it confirmed my opinion of him as a genius, for
works of genius never quite survive the translation from their native
`tongue'. And certainly don't mistake the Kubrick version as coming from
Nabokov's pen - about 1% of his script made it in to the finished film.
A friend of mine told me this week that before Lyne got the rights to the
book, David Lynch had been bidding for them, to star John Hurt as Humbert
Humbert. I nearly sobbed when I heard this. It would have been SO GOOD !!!
Camille
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