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Post by mortsahlfan on May 2, 2018 21:04:21 GMT
Is anyone looking forward to Butterfly in the Typewriter?
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2018 23:35:51 GMT
I had no idea a book about Toole had been written, let alone a movie adapted from it, until this thread.
Yeah, I would definitely watch it. I think A Confederacy of Dunces is a comic masterpiece, one of only two novels I've read that made me laugh out loud. The other being Catch-22.
Toole's natural writing talent was extraordinary. I am kinda amazed no one has adapted it to film. I heard at one time there was talk of Nicholson playing Ignatius.
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Post by mortsahlfan on May 3, 2018 0:36:36 GMT
I had no idea a book about Toole had been written, let alone a movie adapted from it, until this thread. Yeah, I would definitely watch it. I think A Confederacy of Dunces is a comic masterpiece, one of only two novels I've read that made me laugh out loud. The other being Catch-22. Toole's natural writing talent was extraordinary. I am kinda amazed no one has adapted it to film. I heard at one time there was talk of Nicholson playing Ignatius. Susan Sarandon will play his mother... I haven't read the book. I downloaded it, but I have so many books, and I tend to read biographies, so I got his biography, which is what the movie title is named after. |
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Post by marianne48 on May 3, 2018 0:38:29 GMT
Toole's natural writing talent was extraordinary. I am kinda amazed no one has adapted it to film. There have been several attempts to bring the book to the screen over the years. One theory for its failure to get made is that it's "cursed." Not only did Toole commit suicide before the book was published, but several actors considered for the lead role died, as well as a few other people connected with various productions (and also Hurricane Katrina played a factor). |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2018 4:41:48 GMT
Toole's natural writing talent was extraordinary. I am kinda amazed no one has adapted it to film. There have been several attempts to bring the book to the screen over the years. One theory for its failure to get made is that it's "cursed." Not only did Toole commit suicide before the book was published, but several actors considered for the lead role died, as well as a few other people connected with various productions (and also Hurricane Katrina played a factor). I had never heard about any 'curse'. That is kinda bizarre, though I have never really followed it. I think Toole committed suicide about 10 years before it was published, thanks in large part to his mother, I think? I'm too lazy right now to even look it up. But thinking about a movie makes me wonder who could play Ignatius and his mother and all the rest of the colorful characters. |
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