Re: documentary on salinger?

From: Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Sun Nov 10 2002 - 09:16:33 EST

Oh, come on :). It's completely possible for Tim to think the film was
Awful without being angry that his parts were cut...

Jim

PS I'd still like to see it, though. Just after listening to Tim's
description, but now certainly after Scottie's.

PPS Shouldn't the subject line be "documentary about Salinger?" Is the
meaning of the word "on" changing too? I see that in many student papers.

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> I'm intrigued that Tim should feel so mortified on behalf
> of the producers of this film which - if, as he says, it's
> the BBC production of a two or three years ago -
> struck me as quite a respectable stab at presenting
> a writer to an audience that might not have known as
> much about him as your fully certified, paid-up Bananafish.
>
> As I remember - & it isn't all that much - its proposition
> was the maiming of a rather facile, rather priviledged dude
> by the experience of war & his conversion thereby into
> a real, serious writer searching for some undamaged place
> - in his case the lost Elysium of childhood. Maybe not
> the most original idea - but surely not the most obtuse either.
>
> I personally had a tiny frémissement seeing & hearing
> the sixty-five year old dowager Franny Glass - & those
> old chums from the Valley Forge Military Academy
> (or wherever.) These are the items Tim himself picks out
> to commend. What was so dreadful that warrants the image
> of the barrel being scraped?
>
> Reaching for my cigar & patting the couch invitingly, I recall
> how often an unacceptable emotion can find expression
> only in an apparently unrelated, or even contradictory one:
> unacknowledged lust in mockery, prurient excitement in ennui,
> hostility in zealous concern, rage in embarrassment & so on.
> I note too, that Tim's contributions to the film were, in the end,
> spurned.
>
> Hmm.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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