Posted by Dean McMillan on March 23, 1999 at 13:05:45:
In Reply to: Re: Movies? Never! posted by Bob Justice on March 23, 1999 at 06:39:28:
>"...you would run into the same problem David Lynch had with Dune or Stanly Kubrick had with 2001. Except for a few science fiction buffs no one would understand the movie."
Well, but what moviegoer's life was not enriched by these films, whether or not they were understood?
One of life's great fascinations for me, is the manner in which a Vance book is peopled by poets. In every scene, the deciding character talks to others no less eloquent that s/he.
Here be peasants, mouthing vast vocabularies.
As TWELFTH NIGHT translates to the silver screen, so will MASKE: THAERY. You'll see.