Books & memes
Jul. 19th, 2005 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhI just finished The Brothers Karamazov last night, and damn. That is some good shit.
My grade school and high school weren't very big on assigning reading materials beyond the few short stories that came in our literature textbooks, and so sometimes I feel deficient in my knowledge of the 'classics'. I never got to be forced to read Steinbeck or Orwell or Tolstoy. Not that it always matters: it's impossible to read much of anything without putting together who Big Brother is and what happens to Lennie at the end of Mice and Men. But occasionally I like to be able to say that I have, actually, read those books that everyone should, and this was one of those times.
So, yes. Excellent book. But what I really want to know is why has no one adapted this to modern times for a movie, like Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. Except maybe without the singing and dancing.
It'd be perfect! Think about it: absentee father, with two babymommas, who refuses to pay the money he owes his children *cough*childsupport*cough*? Liberal-atheist-socialist son home from university in the big city? Wild, drunken parties with thousands spent in a single night? Courtroom drama, complete with separated lovers screaming at each other and the judge threatening to throw people out? Dramatic closing speech from lawyer about "the media has desensitized us to violence"?
OMG it's like an episode of Law & Order. And then there's the people running around covered in blood, secret illegitimate children, suicides, and vaguely incestuous love polygons. Can't you see it as next year's big summer blockbuster? I think this is a problem I developed because, somehow, my mental image of Grushenka turned into Queen Latifa. I, um, yeah. I swear to god it works, if you're me.
On an entirely different note, ganked from pretty much everyone: Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.
My grade school and high school weren't very big on assigning reading materials beyond the few short stories that came in our literature textbooks, and so sometimes I feel deficient in my knowledge of the 'classics'. I never got to be forced to read Steinbeck or Orwell or Tolstoy. Not that it always matters: it's impossible to read much of anything without putting together who Big Brother is and what happens to Lennie at the end of Mice and Men. But occasionally I like to be able to say that I have, actually, read those books that everyone should, and this was one of those times.
So, yes. Excellent book. But what I really want to know is why has no one adapted this to modern times for a movie, like Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. Except maybe without the singing and dancing.
It'd be perfect! Think about it: absentee father, with two babymommas, who refuses to pay the money he owes his children *cough*childsupport*cough*? Liberal-atheist-socialist son home from university in the big city? Wild, drunken parties with thousands spent in a single night? Courtroom drama, complete with separated lovers screaming at each other and the judge threatening to throw people out? Dramatic closing speech from lawyer about "the media has desensitized us to violence"?
OMG it's like an episode of Law & Order. And then there's the people running around covered in blood, secret illegitimate children, suicides, and vaguely incestuous love polygons. Can't you see it as next year's big summer blockbuster? I think this is a problem I developed because, somehow, my mental image of Grushenka turned into Queen Latifa. I, um, yeah. I swear to god it works, if you're me.
On an entirely different note, ganked from pretty much everyone: Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.
