comment?

[fflo]

"There will be two completely separate and, I might add, mutually hostile audiences for the resulting film. One will be composed of 'Hitchhiker' fans, millions strong, who will interpret every minute discrepancy between what they are watching onscreen and what they once read on the page as a heresy punishable by law or, where possible, stoning. These people are lunatics, and I am one of them. Opposing us will be hordes of decent, ungeeky humans who will be bewildered and patchily amused by the tale of Arthur Dent and his voyage among the stars."

--Anthony Lane in the New Yorker

Comments

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the film? I liked the book in college, but I haven't read it in so long that I doubt I'd be among the "lunatic" portion of the audience. On the other hand, I am neither "decent" nor "ungeeky," so I don't really fit into that part of the audience either. Maybe I should just stay home. (I'll probably add it to the Netflix queue after it's out on DVD.)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it. YOU, though, have a special reason to go see a movie in the theater: you never do! Night out and all that. You know, which people do sometimes, even when they have kids.

Of course I can't let you call yourself not "decent" without opposing the notion. What the hell you talkin' about? Decency, schmecency, anyway, at least if you mean we should all judge each other and ourselves very harshly when we're not perfect little saints. Cuz we ain't.