Brothers in Christ

[RZNJ]

17 minutes ago, Ohfan67 said:

Well dang. I may have to reread the book after all of these posts. 

We read it in HS in senior English class.  I don’t remember it in any kind of detail.  I considered reading it work at the time.

[Satyr3206]

James 4:7

[yark14]

Austin 3:16

[RZNJ]

Adley 1:1

[Orioles0615]

7 minutes ago, yark14 said:

Austin 3:16

3:16 is still higher than his batting average 

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, Orioles0615 said:

3:16 is still higher than his batting average 

You spelled OPS wrong.

[RZNJ]

10 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

You spelled OPS wrong.

That’s cold!   Lol

[Babkins]

1 hour ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I don't know if Malamud was brilliant, I thought the main point of the book was no matter what you do it'll all work out poorly in the end.

But I did enjoy both the book and the movie in completely different ways. And someone needs to remake the movie staying true to the book and just being relentlessly dark and depressing.

I would be into such a remake. And for what it’s worth, I usually don’t hold it against a cinematic adaptation of a book if it deviates from the original story in some way. Cinema and literature use such different sets of tools to tell a story that it makes sense to me to regard a book and its film adaptation as wholly different entities.

i just couldn’t believe the audacity of Levinson’s film once I finally read Malamud’s book. A bridge too far.

[DrungoHazewood]

8 minutes ago, Babkins said:

I would be into such a remake. And for what it’s worth, I usually don’t hold it against a cinematic adaptation of a book if it deviates from the original story in some way. Cinema and literature use such different sets of tools to tell a story that it makes sense to me to regard a book and its film adaptation as wholly different entities.

i just couldn’t believe the audacity of Levinson’s film once I finally read Malamud’s book. A bridge too far.

If I were him I might have done the same thing. The movie netted something like $30M in the theaters, and has probably made some significant fraction of that again in video, DVD, streaming, etc.

If he had done a dark and bitter movie staying true to the book I don't know if it breaks even. Not that depressing, quasi-nihilistic movies can't make money, but it's probably more of a challenge.

Edited April 11 by DrungoHazewood

[Babkins]

1 hour ago, DrungoHazewood said:

If I were him I might have done the same thing. The movie netted something like $30M in the theaters, and has probably made some significant fraction of that again in video, DVD, streaming, etc.

If he had done a dark and bitter movie staying true to the book I don't know if it breaks even. Not that depressing, quasi-nihilistic movies can't make money, but it's probably more of a challenge.

Perhaps not in 1984. I think it would play better today.