Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:19 am
I didn't think it was bad at all. I thought I read somewhere (maybe here) that it sucked. I didn't feel that at all. I'd put it on the 'worth watching' list.
No.mbilderback wrote:Case in point: The Shawshank Redemption.
No, you are wrong.mbilderback wrote:I'm pretty sure it was a Steven King short story.
Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy's corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.
These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986).
Well now, I guess you're right.TheCatt wrote:mbilderback wrote:I'm pretty sure it was a Steven King short story.
No, you are wrong.
It's one of my favorite movies of all times, and one of my favorite novellas of all time as well.
Check out Different Seasons.
Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy's corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.
These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986).
4 "short stories" could hardly fill 508 pages.
Leisher, what are the stories, out of curiosity?
If you mean The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke, that's already been made into a movie.Leisher wrote:The Signal (I'm totally guessing the title here. I don't remember it or the author.) - This would be right up M. Night's alley. Nobody could do this film but him. The story goes that man is beginning to populate the moon and they come across a tower that is buried yet emitting a signal. The story continues with the main character part of a team trying to get to the tower and speculating what the signal's purpose is. The story ends with a twist that sets the reader up to determine what happens next. Does anyone remember this story?
Well, has to happen some time.mbilderback wrote:Well now, I guess you're right.
Heh, I had the same thought. 2k1.thibodeaux wrote:Leisher wrote:The Signal (I'm totally guessing the title here. I don't remember it or the author.) - This would be right up M. Night's alley. Nobody could do this film but him. The story goes that man is beginning to populate the moon and they come across a tower that is buried yet emitting a signal. The story continues with the main character part of a team trying to get to the tower and speculating what the signal's purpose is. The story ends with a twist that sets the reader up to determine what happens next. Does anyone remember this story?
If you mean The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke, that's already been made into a movie.
If you mean The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke, that's already been made into a movie.
Yeah... iirc, the movie was loosely based on Sentinal, but then AC Clark didn't actually write the book 2001 until (or during?) the movie was made.Leisher wrote:If you mean The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke, that's already been made into a movie.
Interesting. I never made that connection as I read that story back in junior high or something like that and never really paid attention to who wrote it. But yeah, I think that's it.
The film doesn't do the story justice.
For those of you who haven't read the story, "What are you doing Dave?" isn't in the story.