Re: BANANAFISH digest 26
Jessica and Michele Cook (travelnow@isat.com)
Mon, 01 Jul 1996 10:55:26 -0700
Helena,
I completely agree with your stand against making "Catcher" into a movie
or even a play. There is no true way to communicate the feelings that
Holden feels unless you read them. Also, a book is so private and it can
capture you and literally transform you into another world, while a movie
is usually watched with 100 other people and lasts for two hours and you
walk away with your watered down Pepsi in your hand disappointed because
you didn't get it. I too get offended when someone attempts to transform
Salinger because they always leave something out and with Salinger, you
just can't do that. Also, the "Catcher" is somewhat sacred to me and if
someone makes a movie, I feel as if has been exploited.
I also agree that Holden can be an icon to any sex and any age. If you
read Salinger when you are young and then a couple years later, with new
experinces in hand, you'll find a different meaning or discover something
that you wouldn't think of 5 years ago. Just becasue Holden is a guy does
not mean he only applys to guys. The problems he faces and the struggles
he goes through happen to all of us. I literallt laughed at the person who
said this because how does he know that a woman can't relate to it, HE'S
NOT A WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, but's that's just my two cents!
Jess.
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> From: i'm helena and you're not <helenak@geocities.com>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: BANANAFISH digest 26
> Date: Tuesday, July 01, 1997 2:03 PM
>
> > I'm not suggesting
> > that the book would survive the transition to the screen (though I've
often
> > wondered how many people out there have, at some point in their lives,
sat
> > down and written what they thought of as a faithful "Catcher"
screenplay).
>
> a group of my friends are in a theatre group and did an adaptation of
> catcher last summer. i refused to go and see it, i think i offended a
> few people, and i don't think i'd watch a film version either. you know
> how when someone dies, it's horrible to see them all dead and waxy in a
> funeral home, you just want to remember them as they were. that's how i
> feel about catcher. i have my own way of visualising it, and i'd
> probably only be annoyed by someone else's 'dramatisation' or 'based on
> the novel by' movie.
>
> hey malcs, i enjoyed the tom robbins article.
>
> as regards devil's own, i haven't seen it, and will not be going to see
> it. to try and make a hollywood movie out of the ira is, as brad pitt
> says, 'irresponsible'. so they won't be getting my three quid.
>
> and about holden being a male only icon, i'm genuinely surprised at how
> politically correct you lot are. i mean there's not A SINGLE ONE of you
> who thinks a girl can't fully appreciate holden's standpoint? wow!
>
> :helena
>
> --
> I think that doctors should only ask
> 'And how are we this morning?'
> when they are addressing the occupants
> of a double bed.
> - Pat Ingoldsby