Subject: RE: my foolish heart...
From: Lee Dirks (ldirks@microsoft.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 1997 - 19:08:44 GMT
Yeah, I taped the whole introduction as well, and although interesting -
you're right, they skip over probably the most intriguing factor of the
film! As for the Hollywood-nature of the film, as usual, they flatten
out the characters, churn out melodrama from actual drama, and then slap
a happy ending on what is actually a rather distressing short story. No
wonder Salinger vowed never again.
I suppose it could be worse: imagine if someone tried to remake Teddy or
A Perfect Day for Bananafish!
-jld
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Tveite [SMTP:jontv@ksu.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 1997 3:47 PM
To: bananafish@cassatt.Mass-USR.COM
Subject: my foolish heart...
Said Lee Dirks <ldirks@microsoft.com>:
> Just curious how many of you Bananafish out there have seen My
Foolish
> Heart, the one piece of Salinger's work ("Uncle Wiggily in
Connecticut")
> which was turned into a movie by Hollywood. I taped it from
AMC years
> ago and have watched it 3-4 times, and although it isn't a
particularly
> inspiring piece of filmmaking, nor is it very true to the
original story
> - - I still like watching it...
I probably taped it around the same time you did. I've watched
it twice,
I think, and I find it interesting too. I take a fairly large
amount of
perverse pleasure in watching the Hollywood machinery do its
cultural
work. If I'd never read the story, I'd think, gosh, what a
quaint little
melodrama. But knowing the "source material" so well gives you
a really
interesting perspective on how the screen community operates.
Lee, did you record the AMC introduction as well? Mine is
interesting in
that it makes *no mention whatsoever* that the movie is
(extremely)
loosely based on Salinger's work. Whether that's an indication
of
Hollywood's interest in Salinger, or an admission that the movie
barely
resembles the story at all, I don't know. What do others think?
Jon (Tveite) <jontv@ksu.edu>
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