The Swimmer
Marco Cabassi (mac2@cornell.edu)
Sun, 09 Nov 1997 23:16:52 -0500
pesciphiles-
>I was recently viewing the Burt Lancaster picture, "The Swimmer". It
>struck mevery "Catcher" like. The protaganist, Ned, is this rich old
>business man in Conneticut who is swimming home. He is swimming pool by
>pool to his house. He picks up a 20 year old woman and they start wimming
>and have fun. He says stuff to her about "protecting her" and she runs
>off. He meats various charcters along the way and ends up running home
>after being called "a joke".
i also saw this movie (not the whole way through)
i thought the beginning was really cool... how he was going to swim all the
way home through all those swimming pools...
>The story line isn't that connected but Ned's speech to the girl about
>protecting her in the city sounds very much like Holden's speech about
>being in the field of rye catching kids who are about to go over some
>"crazy cliff". Anybody else seen it? It took a ton of patience to sit
>through its endless shots of Lancaster in a swimming suit running with
>horses or jumping over things with the girl and swimming.
i had the same impression (though i found the lancaster speech bordered on
disturbing in a couple of parts... can't say why really... you have to
watch the scene to get the vibe)
i thought the movie became rather lame soon after lancaster meets the
girl... it started out all right though... this is probably due to the
endless shots of lancaster running around...
i did like the scenes where he stops and talks to the pool owners though...
there is a cool tension there...
>I had a JDS dream a few nights ago, that I'd think I'd want to share.
>Well, it was one of those Oprahs when its about her book club and JDS is
>to be featured and how "Hapworth" is the book that she'll talk about. JDS
>comes on and looks to be very mad and all. He starts going on these rants
>about how he hates Chicago and how he hates phonies (very Holden like) and
>how phonies killed Seymour (very Buddy like). Then, he starts burning his
>book on stage (very Jimi Hendrix a la Monterray Pop Fest like). Oprah
>starts to scream and call him a phony and then he takes over the show.
>JDS renames it "Jerry" and has engaging interviews with movie stars and
>how he says to Richard Gere that Gere is on the 1st level of
>enlightenment. JDS quits TV and moves to the Great White North where he
>kicks Mordecai Richler's bottom and starts writing engaging columns in
>Prarie newspapers. That's all. Any comments?
imagine catcher discussed on a talk show like oprah's.... (the horror the
horror)
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