Re: documentary on salinger?

Yep, you got it, good old Norah Barnacle.

I guess I don't have the same reverence for Joyce (or other literary
characters) that you do -- I tend to think every movie is, in a sense,
turning a life into a movie. Joyce's art was about turning his life into a
book, so why not turn his life into another medium...film?

Are the potential visual representations of Nora giving Jimmy a hand job on
their first date more disturbing to you than Richard Ellmann publishing ALL
of Joyce's letters? Against the will of the family? I was pretty
ambivalent about that myself...I felt like I was getting a lot of detail I
just didn't really need or want, on the one hand, while on the other
there's a part of me that wants everything available out there for study.

ugh. Decisions decisions :).

Perhaps I'm just expecting too much, but I generally hope Hollywood
versions of VW's life may introduce people to her books, get them reading,
make them more of a cultural commodity, make their reading for pleasure and
study for knowledge more widespread. At least a little bit.

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> > I want to
> > see that, and Nora, just to see what kind of
> > narrative decisions they made
> > to turn these people's lives into a movie...
>
> "nora", as in nora barnacle, formerly employed at the
> finn hotel?
>
> i guess i'm just not interested in "narrative
> decisions" that show or don't show a young jimmy joyce
> out walking with a young nora barnacle (if indeed nora
> is nora barnacle), and depicting how she made a man of
> him.
>
> and how they utilize those finally published steamy
> joyce letters to nora. split screen? voice over? or?
>
> hmmm, eye operations: may be leave those out? or just
> show jim with another one of those patches? or better,
> the two in bed the night before the operation, nora
> teary....
>
> but, moreover, i don't want figments of
> actors/actresses dimming my mind's eye of any of the
> joyces, including poor lucia and georgio.
>
> i don't want 'these people's lives [turned] into a
> movie'. their lives weren't a movie (and i might add,
> they lives weren't literary biographies).
>
> i want the movies to keep the hell away from the likes
> of holden and kafka.
>
> kim
>
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