Subject: The Moviegoer, Malick and Marcel
From: Cade Bois (cadere@HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: Tue Jul 20 1999 - 19:02:07 EDT
Yet another thread.... didn't Bert W.B. say not too long ago Malick couldn't
get anyone interested in the script? Oh well, I suppose he did. Needless to
say, I agree pretty much with the dubious comments others have voiced
regarding the casting. Talent aside, I simply detest how Hollywood insists
on relying on the cult of celebrity more than a good story (granted, I
detest Hollywood simply by birthright, since I was born around those
godforsaken parts), and this was an issue I had with Malick's last film (er,
cinematic tone poem?), despite his commendable attempt to stay out of the
limelight.
As far I have been able to infer, Malick showed no interest in actually
directing this film so I'm curious as to who the director turned out to be.
I think that'll make a huge difference. Since Malick made ongoing changes to
the script while shooting The Thin Red Line plus adding an obvious trail of
his own artistic intuition that probably doesn't translate well into the cut
and dry format of a shooting script, I not so confident in using TTRL as a
measure for predicting how another adaptation by him would turn out under
someone else's direction. Plus the fact that Percy's Percy and Jones' Jones,
and really the two novels are worlds apart. Granted I love Malick's TTRL for
itself, but I have serious reservations about the film as an "adaptation."
If Malick's Moviegoer script is as colored by Malick's intuition as his last
film, there's really no telling what it ended up like.
By the way, I was delighted to see someone quoting Marcel. As a bit of
personal trivia, I have often felt that Marcel's 'homo viator' was quite
titularly apropos for Malick (not to mention Binx, obviously).
Cade, babbling and impromtu homo viatrix
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