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I saw this a couple of days ago at the comingsoon.net site:
Someone has posted a review to the “Big Fish” script that Tim Burton is shooting. It is a second draft so it might not be final. The review isn’t very
favorable, but it seems that the reviewers own tastes were revealed in the
review. I think it will show-off Tim Burton’s great directing skills, and I see
it as a modern day “Walter Mitty” story (I love Danny Kaye films).There might be some spoilers – I still need to read the book, but since it’s
Burton, the story is only a starting point for the visuals.Here is the link:
http://www.tnmc.org/dp/0827021.shtml
Nat
Hey, I love “Walter Mitty!”
-E
I believe the story that “Walter Mitty” is based on was by O’Henry if my memory serves me correctly, and the title was “The Secret life of Walter Mitty” or something like that (or do I have that backwards, and the book was called that?).
Have you ever seen “The Inspector General” or “Court Jester” with Danny Kaye?
Those are good ones, but my favorite one is “A Song Is Born” where he plays a music professor. My idea of love is presented in that movie when one of the other professors starts to talk about his wife, who had died, and how they spent their honeymoon writing a concerto for clarinet among other things. It’s a sentimental scene in a comedy that brings a tear to my eye.Nat – yes, you are exactly right. O. Henry also wrote “The Tale of the Magi.” Very good…one of my favorites, in fact. But really, you must watch “Lolita,” if you haven’t already seen it (the Stanley Kubrick version, not the new one with Jeremy Irons as Humbert…Nabokov actually wrote the screenplay for Kubrick’s version). Man, I have a lot of movies to watch this weekend: Popeye, Cats: the musical (which I’m dreading…) and A Song Is Born (hey, they all sounded interesting…so I figured I’d better get crackin’ on the flicks…)
-E
Peter Sellers and James Mason, yes I know that movie, and the incessant Whaaa Whaaaing of that song. My favorite Kubrick film is “Dr. Stangelove” because of Sellers playing three parts, but in “Lolita” he plays one man with three personalities, Sellers is not only one of the best comedians ever he was one of the best actors ever.
Nat
Small nit-picky item: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was a James Thurber short story.
Oh, OK. I wasn’t sure.
Thanks for the info Brian.Nat who is not afraid to admit he is wrong… only once though.
Heh heh heh *sheepish grin* I was wrong too…didn’t look it up…shame on me…and my failing memory…gotta go buy Twizzlers now…and maybe a couple of oranges…and have a rousing game of golf with my dog…hopefully I’ll win this time…last time, she didn’t play fairly and bit me on my ankle, severing the tendons located there (which ones they are, I”m not sure…hey, I’m a stoopid writer, not an scientist…or anything else useful, for that matter) and thus gaining an unfair advantage over her owner, who was writhing in pain on the floor, while she watched with her evil dog grin…but this time, I’ve got a surprise in store for her…my ankle has been slathered in peanut butter…mwahahaha! Dear god, I need more sleep!
-E
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