How would he have hidden the poison needle?
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I’ve read all his stuff. The White Plague is good also.
Brian + Anderson collaboration hasn’t come anywhere near Frank.
It’s complicated. He was 48 when the Great War started so too old to participate, but he had been a pacifist until then. On the outbreak of war, he kind of swung a bit the other way while still calling himself a pacifist, arguing that it was appropriate to fight the aggressors. Then he wrote Things to Come with its vision of a world destroyed, or nearly so, by war, at around the same time as he was predicting the Second World War.
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Rule 34 says that somewhere there is a pornographic parody with nude Bene Gesserit.
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Re: Eagles I thought Oglaf explained the problem.
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Oh yes it will.
Hmm. I thought the David Lynch film was okay, not great, but okay, what with Sting and agent Cooper in it and the good visuals.
But I liked it better than the book.
So, looking forward to the new version.
And yes, Villeneuve could do worse than looking at Jodorovsky’s concept.
BTW, Chris Foss had a hand in this at the time, IIRC.
i mean, it is, and you won’t. i guess it’s one of those things that’s great because it’s terrible?
So, does everyone who likes Lynch’s Dune only “like” Lynch’s Dune?
So like meta.
“beautiful feyd”
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But remember that 2001 the book is actually a novelization based on the already-completed screenplay. Some details changed in production — the props crew, f’rex, had a devil of a time trying to make the monolith a perfectly transparent crystal-clear slab as specified in the screenplay, so they went for a featureless matte black slab instead. But the transparent slab still survives in the novelization. (-:
The original source for 2001:A Space Odyssey was Arthur C. Clarke’s short story The Sentinel, which tells the same basic story as the “Tycho Base” section of the film — the discovery of an alien artifact on the moon’s surface, and the consequences of disturbing it (SPOILER: It’s a tripwire alarm! Now they know we’re here. Whoever they are…)
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I had always heard that these two were essentially simultaneous productions. Supposedly, it’s not exactly accurate to say that either was completely based on the other. Or was this just Clarke’s story?
It certainly was Clarke’s story in his 1971 book “The Lost Worlds of 2001”. Though I read the German translation some 30 years ago, it felt very believable. Also, Clarke did get Screenplay credit, after all, and, IIRC, it can be shown that the book is based on a early version of the screenplay, not the finished one.
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Yes indeed. I’m probably making too fine a distinction for some to parse, (-: but after three decades in and around Hollyweird Show Biz, I’m used to “completed screenplay” meaning “it has all its pages, and goes all the way to the end”, versus a “finished screenplay”, which is the final shooting script (but note contrast with “final version,” which also incorporates all the multi-hued revisions written and inserted during production).
There’s often a gap of months or years between “completed screenplay” and “finished screenplay,” and the latter sometimes bears only the vaguest resemblance to the former. (-:
Thank Shai-Hulud!
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