Iamwhomiam » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:52 pm wrote:I see. My apologies for my misunderstanding. I thought you might have enjoyed the article.
I did, thank you, bud. All artists are thieves, and Verbinski is a good one.
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Iamwhomiam » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:52 pm wrote:I see. My apologies for my misunderstanding. I thought you might have enjoyed the article.
lucky » Fri Mar 17, 2017 9:28 am wrote:Maybe its because I was born in the 60's but imo the road movies form the 70's are still some of the best ever made....Badlands, Vanishing point, Paper moon, two lane blacktop, Five easy pieces....and that's just from my crumbling memory. The vast open skies and beautiful scenery and the hot air almost pouring out of the screen, what say you RI'ers....how could I forget easy Rider
Dear Marlon
I’m praying that you’ll buy ON THE ROAD and make a movie of it. Don’t worry about the structure, I know to compress and re-arrange the plot a bit to give a perfectly acceptable movie-type structure: making it into one all-inclusive trip instead of the several voyages coast-to-coast in the book, one vast round trip from New York to Denver to Frisco to Mexico to New Orleans to New York again. I visualize the beautiful shots could be made with the camera on the front seat of the car showing the road (day and night) unwinding into the windshield, as Sal and Dean yak. I wanted you to play the part because Dean (as you know) is no dopey hotrodder but a real intelligent (in fact Jesuit) Irishman. You play Dean and I’ll play Sal (Warner Bros. mentioned I play Sal) and I’ll show you how Dean acts in real life, you couldn’t possibly imagine it without seeing a good imitation. Fact, we can go visit him in Frisco, or have him come down to L.A. still a real frantic cat but nowadays settled down with his final wife saying the Lord’s Prayer with his kiddies at night… as you’ll see when you read the play BEAT GENERATION. All I want out of this is to be able to establish myself and by mother a trust fund for life, so I can really go roaming around the world writing about Japan, India, France etc… I Want to be free to write what comes out of my head & free to feed my buddies when they’re hungry & not worry about my mother.
Incidentally, my next novel is THE SUBTERRANEANS coming out in N.Y. next March and is about a love affair between a white guy and a colored girl and is a very hep story. Some of the characters in it you know in the Village (Stanley Gould etc.) It easily could be turned into a play, easier than ON THE ROAD.
What I wanta do is re-do the theater and the cinema in America, give it a spontaneous dash, remove pre-conceptions of “situation” and let people rave on as they do in real life. That’s what the play is: no plot in particular, no “meaning” in particular, just the way people are. Everything I write I do in the spirit where I imagine myself an Angel returned to the earth seeing it with sad eyes as it is. I know you approve of these ideas, & incidentally the new Frank Sinatra show is based on “spontaneous” too, which is the only way to come on anyway, whether in business or life. The French movies of the 30’s are still far superior to ours because the French really let their actors come on and the writers didn’t quibble with some preconceived notion of how intelligent the movie audience is, they talked soul from soul and everybody understood at once. I want to make great French Movies in America, finally, when I’m rich… American theater & Cinema at present is an outmoded dinosaur that ain’t mutated along with the best in American Literature.
If you really want to go ahead, make arrangements to see me in New York when next you come, or if you’re going to FLorida here I am, but what we should do is talk about this because I prophesy that it’s going to be the beginning of something real great. I’m bored nowadays and I’m looking around for something to do in the world, anyway — writing novels is getting too easy, same with plays, I wrote the play in 24 hours.
Come on now, Marlon, put up your dukes and write!
Sincerely, later, Jack Kerouac
lucky » Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:28 pm wrote:Maybe its because I was born in the 60's but imo the road movies form the 70's are still some of the best ever made....Badlands, Vanishing point, Paper moon, two lane blacktop, Five easy pieces....and that's just from my crumbling memory. The vast open skies and beautiful scenery and the hot air almost pouring out of the screen, what say you RI'ers....how could I forget easy Rider
Cordelia » Fri Mar 17, 2017 3:42 pm wrote:lucky » Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:28 pm wrote:Maybe its because I was born in the 60's but imo the road movies form the 70's are still some of the best ever made....Badlands, Vanishing point, Paper moon, two lane blacktop, Five easy pieces....and that's just from my crumbling memory. The vast open skies and beautiful scenery and the hot air almost pouring out of the screen, what say you RI'ers....how could I forget easy Rider
'Badlands' is my favorite on the list (Terrence Malick's first film and, along w/'Days of Heaven', I think his best).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcFx06cBmbk
Early 1960's TV sometimes aired re-runs of a1958 road film, 'Thunder Road'; I had a secret crush on Robert Mitchum and imagined a girl character written into the plot, played by Haley Mills (not 'Pollyanna', more from 'Tiger Bay', in which I probably imagined a Robert Mitchum playing a role).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qePVlBTN_Yc
Early 1970's, Spielberg's first two full-length features were road-trips...
'Duel', about a driver-less truck stalking a motorist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdMBr0yuiTI
and 'Sugarland Express':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRsMXxfw0SI
Bill Paxton was great as usual.
Cordelia wrote:^^^
I remember the film 'Dealing' (but not the book) and being a Barbara Hershey fan; she, along w/drug use, was heavily promoted at that time as a hippie-chick role model who shocked early 70's 'The Dick Cavett' live TV audience when she breast-fed the baby she and David Carradine named 'Free', before or after she changed her own name to Barbara 'Seagull' ('Hershey' wasn't her real surname either), after/when she believed a seagull that died during filmmaking inhabited her body, before changing her own name back to Hershey and 'Free' later changing his name to something more traditional. Trailer for an early Scorsese (rail)road film starring Hershey, along w/ David and his dad, John Carradine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtorFyipCac
Brekin wroteBill Paxton was great as usual.
RIP Bill Paxton May 17, 1955--February 25, 2017
"Sam Was Here" - aka "Nemesis" was supremely odd. At the time, I said it was like watching a horror film by Quentin Dupieux - very French, very surreal, very shaggy dog story. But a week later, it still haunts me. It's an unfinished dream allegory with a great actor, gorgeous photography, and zero fucks given. Definitely recommended for anyone that sounds good to.
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