Mind's Eye Re: Gatsby

I liked some of his short stories. There's a 1949 Gatsby film with
Shelly Winters (before her bloat) being credibly vapid. I can barely
read Umberto Eco, yet like the films of his books. Surely it must
have dawned by now rigs that most of these "creatives" just pander to
ignorant reality? It just gets worse in film. Give Hollywood a
chance to have star-crossed lovers and that's what you'll get. When
we curl up with a book we can let our own minds wander. This is where
much of the creativity lies. I'd rather they screwed up Gatsby
(again) than churned out today's formulaic nonsense (Barely worth the
$10 fee to Pirate Bay).
I've tried to write a "real novel" and just can't manage he process at
all. It might be possible as a screenplay that could be expanded by
people watching - I think in this sense writing may be at an end.
Actors and what they do in front of cameras or on stage can be
brilliant - yet they are more likely much of a muchness, constraining
the story as much as television news. We are short of an adventurous
medium.

On May 25, 10:42 pm, rigs <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wish Hollywood would leave good novels alone. Have no intention of
> seeing this latest Gatsby and the other Fitzgerald books/stories set
> to film were terrible. He is one of my favorite and influential
> writers.//Here are a couple of links to articles that appeared in the
> NYTimes a few years ago as I suspected all along. Plots have their
> seeds in reality.
>
> "Hints of Future Novels in Letters to Fitzgerald" by Dinitia Smith-
> Spetember 8,2003  <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/books/
> 08FITZ.html>
>
> "Mementos of a Real Romance That Fed Fitzgerald's Fiction" by Janet
> Maslin January 24, 2005  <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/books/
> 24masl.html>
>
> Hope they link!

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