Raskolnikov Goes To The Valley
It was, like, totally packed at the movies, so we couldn't get into Inside Man. There was, like, nothing else worth seeing, so we went to Tower, where I spotted this, like, totally horrifying DVD:
The description on the back: "This contemporary urban fable, loosely based on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment..." Please. If you must steal from Dostoevsky, keep it to yourself.
MY EYES!!!
It burns!!!
IT BUUUUUUUUUUUURNS!!!!!
Are Americans so lazy that they can't read the original? Must it be translated into some dumbed-down "Strip-mall-barbie-doll" facsimile before anyone will "consume" it?
What's next? "Faust in Pasadena" starring Justin TImberlake?
RedPretzel at April 4, 2006 6:52 AM
What's next? "Faust in Pasadena" starring Justin TImberlake?
Or maybe:
Romeo and Juliet as a musical set on New York's west side?
The Phantom of the Opera as done by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Hamlet as a Disney cartoon in Africa with lions?
LYT at April 4, 2006 4:48 PM
Calling Radwaste, come in Radwaste
See this http://tinyurl.com/nqa2f
Crid at April 5, 2006 12:17 AM
RedPretzel asked: "Are Americans so lazy that they can't read the original?"
Daft question - as LYT pointed out beautifully.
I think Shakespeare also sexed up quite a few original sources!
I totally admire them for even bothering to reference Crime and Punishment.
Would anyone have spotted the swipe if they'd simply blurbed: when teens kill...the wrong person...?
Jody Tresidder at April 5, 2006 7:03 AM
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