RE: Bottle Rocket -Caw Caw
Lee Dirks (ldirks@microsoft.com)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:57:45 -0700
Fishy Banana-types:
I rarely post here, but I have been lurking for almost two years!
I am very glad to hear that other Salinger fans enjoyed Bottle Rocket, too.
I've seen it like 3-4 times and - not unlike reading Salinger - it just
seems to get better every time.
However, this makes me want to ask others the list: in terms of other
(obscure) authors that remind you somehow (any way) of Salinger - has anyone
else on here read any of the novels by
<results.asp?userid=1MN4126KI6&mscssid=RFKAP6X72GS12JF400C0NDALFFWFDFHS&sour
ceid=00000114760023687312&author_last=Lemann&author_first=Nancy&match=exact&
options=and> Nancy Lemann? Her first (and I think best) is "Lives of the
Saints" but I also just finished reading her newest (just out) titled "The
Fiery Pantheon". They are smart and hilarious pieces of fiction and her
style is very much like Salinger.
I found a good review of "The Fiery Pantheon" at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-03/29/017l-032998-idx.html
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-03/29/017l-032998-idx.html
>
Here's a quick excerpt: 'Lemann invokes the epic alongside the Southern
yarn in both her style and age-old plot. Especially Homeric is the way she
endows each character with an epithet; thus, Walter is the "crazed young
man," Monroe "had a lot of ailing relatives," and Grace is ever "batting her
eyelashes" at inanimate objects, even as her old flames lie "in demented
heaps throughout the world." Grace, whose name is epithet enough, is an
idolater, and the Fiery Pantheon is her assembly of older men whom she has
deemed noble. Walter is surprised to find out that, although several of the
members have fallen from Grace, their memberships in the Fiery Pantheon are
still honored: "This Fiery Pantheon of yours. Is there a Warm Pantheon?
Maybe I'm in the Half-Baked Pantheon." As no clarifications are forthcoming,
he asks, "Does it have anything to do with the Parthenon? . . . Maybe I can
get into the Uncomfortably Warm Pantheon."'
I'm praying that someone else on this list has read her work and can back me
up here!
Regardless, if you like Salinger - I highly recommend giving Lemann a try.
-jld
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Morris [mailto:winboog@gis.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 3:32 PM
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
Subject: Bottle Rocket -Caw Caw
It is an indie film that was made in 95 by a group of
friends in
Texas.They had originally made a short about some
wrongheaded yet lovable
crooks that James Brooks saw at Sundance and loved. They
then expanded it
into a full length feature. The movie is the tale of three
alienated young
adults trying to make something of themselves through a life
of crime (sort
of). They aren't really hard hearted enough to be crooks,
but they see this
as a way of acheiving something ( and monetary gain isn't
really the issue
either). Maybe it's a movie about friendship and the lengths
we will go to
to follow our friends, and then there's the love story.....
Alright Will, I
give up with this synopsis stuff here's the link to the Sony
website
http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/bottlerocket/ This should
confuse you some
more I'm sure, but I'd rather have a huge multinational
conglomerate
confusing you than having to do it myself. Once again, good
luck.
Robert Morris
winboog@gis.net
>
> can you give me a synopsis of the film? when did it come
out? who made
> it? I am curious and promise to try and rent it if I can,
will
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Robert Morris wrote:
>
> > It's not really a link to Catcher directly, Will. There
are some common
> > themes like loss of innocence, and the beauty of youth
etc. Bottle
Rocket
> > is my favorite movie and I never drew a connection
between it and
Catcher
> > in the Rye until Matt posted his comments last night. I
do highly
recommend
> > it though. Good luck.
> > Robert