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| Thursday, September 9, 2010 02:27 PM |
| Book Report - A Neil Gaiman Library Book Roundup |
 by Fëanor |
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
This is an exceedingly silly and fun children's book, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by his co-conspirator from way back, Dave McKean. It's about... well, the title's pretty self-explanatory, actually. A young boy wants his friend's two goldfish, so he offers to swap something for them. When his buddy will accept nothing else, he offers his Dad. The friend agrees. But when Mom gets home, she disagrees quite strongly, and off the boy has to go to undo the swap. Unfortunately, a number of other swaps have gone on in the meantime, so it takes a while for him to work his way back up the chain to his Dad. I really enjoy the very matter-of-fact way the book approaches the quite ridiculous events that take place. Not everybody can write effectively from the perspective of a child, but Gaiman does it here. It's a wonderful little book, and even though the Dad in it doesn't seem like the best Dad ever, he's still rather lovable in his own way, and it's nice when he gets settled back on his couch with his paper again.
The Graveyard Book
(There are some spoilers in here, I'm afraid, especially in the last paragraph. You've been warned.)
I had a hard time getting into this book. I read the opening and then put it down for a few weeks, unsure if I'd ever finish it. Maybe the part about a little baby's entirely family getting murdered, and him toddling off alone to live in a graveyard and be raised by ghosts and a vampire upset me a bit. (This is supposed to be a children's book, right??) But eventually I decided to give it another shot, and by the time I got to the chapter about the ghoul-gate - a sequence that's scary and imaginative and funny and Lovecraftian all at once - I was really and truly hooked. It doesn't happen that often when I'm reading other people's books, but for some reason pretty often when I'm reading Neil Gaiman's books, I finish a passage and become so filled with envious rage that I hurl curses at Mr. Gaiman. Obviously this book is no exception. I believe it happened after I read the first page, actually, and again later when I read the subtle, deft, and deeply moving way he handled the evolution of the relationship between Nobody and Miss Lupescu. I don't know what it is about Gaiman in particular that makes me react this way. Maybe it's because he writes the kinds of books I wish I could write - clever and funny and fantastical and wise and sad and revelatory. Anyway, I hate him and love him for it.
This book is a coming-of-age story about a boy who grows up side by side with death, with the threat of death hanging over him all the while, and by the end realizes it's finally time for him to live. A friend of mine has pointed out to me in the past that a lot of Gaiman's stories have very similar plots, so I couldn't help but be hyper-aware of the various similarities between this book, American Gods, and Sandman. The meeting of the Jacks of All Trades reminded me of Sandman's serial killer convention, for example. But the fact that the main character turns out to have super powers, is in conflict with a secret and ancient society of evil, and is the object of a prophecy - well, that's not even a Gaiman cliche, that's just a cliche. Still, it's a cliche I like, and one Gaiman handles well. Besides, there's enough freshness and creativity here that it doesn't really matter if some other parts are a bit dusty. Gaiman includes a vampire, a werewolf, and a mummy in the book, but treats them in very different ways than such creatures are usually treated. I don't believe the word "vampire" appears in the book at all; the werewolf considers herself a Hound of God; and the mummy has wings and carries a lucky pig.
The mark of a great writer isn't so much what he says, but what he doesn't say, and Gaiman proves that here. Besides his obvious facility for showing and not telling, he leaves out details about his characters and their world in a manner that's intriguing and effective. The epic final battle between good and evil, for instance, happens almost entirely off-stage. We never really find out what the Honor Guard is all about, and who exactly they guard - apart from Nobody, of course. Silas - his past, his powers - is pretty much a complete mystery. And of course, we know nothing about Bod's future. This is the story of him growing up; what he finds when he goes out into the world and starts living his life is unknown. On the one hand, I'd rather like to read a sequel to this book where we learn what becomes of him. But on the other hand, I'd almost rather be left with that final image of him, walking out of the gates of the graveyard and into his bright future, with anything and everything ahead of him. It's bitter and sweet and lovely. Just as bitter, but also very realistic and very right, is the fact that Bod doesn't end up living happily ever after with the girl he befriended when they were both little children. When they meet again after all those years, you start thinking, "Of course, they were made for each other!" But despite all the death and magic in it, this is a book about real life - the beautiful and lovely parts, and also the parts that hurt like hell. Which is why it hurts and is beautiful in equal measure. |
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| Friday, September 3, 2010 12:30 PM |
| Recyclotron |
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Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
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| Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:57 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
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| Friday, August 20, 2010 09:39 AM |
| (Last updated on Friday, August 20, 2010 11:57 AM) | | Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
UPDATE:
Recyclotron was way too short today, so here's some more stuff.
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| Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:29 AM |
| (Last updated on Friday, August 13, 2010 01:54 PM) | | Book Report - The Epic of Gilgamesh |
 by Fëanor |
Somehow I made it through my entire college career as an English major without ever reading The Epic of Gilgamesh in its entirety. When I found poppy's copy of the 1989 edition of Maureen Gallery Kovacs' translation on the bookshelf the other day, I decided to correct this error. I was surprised to discover how fragmentary our knowledge is of the original source material. In fact, the tablets that the epic was written on are literally fragmentary, so that various sections of the story have to be recreated from other versions of the story, and other sections are just lost entirely. Even the portions that we do have can be a mystery at times; thanks to the obscurity of the ancient language and the alien cultural context of the story, the translation often devolves into guesswork, with certain phrases and terms remaining almost completely opaque (for instance, the mysterious "stone things" on the boat that Gilgamesh destroys near the end of the tale). But out of this mess a rather compelling and universal story ultimately arises, about a man named Gilgamesh who becomes best friends with his enemy, the wild man named Enkidu. Gilgamesh and Enkidu go on various adventures together, but finally Enkidu dies. (Oops, spoiler!) Gilgamesh grieves terribly at his friend's death, not the least because it has made him aware of his own mortality. He goes on a long journey seeking the secret to evading death, only to discover it doesn't exist.
Interestingly, the man Gilgamesh visits seeking the secret to immortality is essentially the prototype for Noah. He was warned by one of the Gods that a flood was coming to wipe the Earth clean of humanity, and that he should build a boat and put himself and his family aboard, along with any livestock he could find. The boat is taken up by the waters and eventually runs aground on the side of a mountain. He releases various birds to discover if there is any other land nearby. The sense I got from the introduction and notes is that a lot of the story of Gilgamesh is made up of earlier stories, and that the story of Gilgamesh was itself then retold and reused in various ways. That's storytelling for you.
I was a little disappointed that there wasn't more to the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. I'd read so much about it, and yet in the story itself, it basically just says, "then they became friends," and that's it. A lot of the story is surprisingly abrupt like that.
The opening of the poem is oddly schizophrenic. It starts by stressing how awesome and amazing Gilgamesh was, only to then move immediately into a story about how he was oppressing his own people in some vague way and that the Gods had to send Enkidu - essentially a wild, beast-like version of Gilgamesh himself - to straighten him out. It's never really clear what's so great about Gilgamesh, actually, as he spends the entire poem either failing to do things, whining about things he has to do, or succeeding in doing things that end up biting him in the ass later. But it's Gilgamesh's failures and his mortality that give the story its humanity and make it accessible (to the extent that it is).
I can't say The Epic of Gilgamesh is a fun beach read or anything, but it is interesting in the way it highlights the places where great gulfs separate us from ancient peoples, and the places where we are not even a footstep apart. |
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| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 04:44 PM |
| On the Viewer - Recently Seen Film Roundup |
| by Fëanor |
Holes - I don't know if it's because I'm a big softy anymore, or because I was blinded by my fond memories of the young adult novel that this film is based on, or because it actually is a good film, but I really enjoyed Holes, and found it to be very moving. It's the story of a young boy sent to a brutal work camp for a crime he didn't commit. That story is interwoven with two other stories out of his family's past which turn out to have essential connections to people and events in his present. Ultimately it's a story of redemption, and the way everything ends up coming together is really powerful. It's a funny, clever, poignant film with a surprisingly great cast which includes Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Winkler, Dule Hill, and Shia LaBeouf (whom I still like, despite the fact that he was in the Transformers movies and Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull). It's hard to call it a kids' movie, though. I mean, the story set in the Old West that revolves around Hill's character is incredibly dark.
Toy Story 3 - The Toy Story films are probably Pixar's greatest achievement in a long line of great achievements. If you think they're just kids' movies about talking toys, you are woefully mistaken. Toy Story 2, I feel, is about becoming aware of the inevitability of death - or at least, the inevitability of change and loss. In Toy Story 3, that change and loss - that death - cannot be put off any longer, and we must finally stare it in the face and come to grips with it. The film is incredibly effective and moving, especially to a new parent like myself. It's about a child growing up and learning to leave childish things behind. But it's also about a parent learning how to let a child grow up. It's about knowing when and how to stick together, and when and how to let people go. And besides all that, it's also incredibly entertaining, clever, imaginative, fun, and funny, and in the middle it turns into a classic, perfectly executed jailbreak thriller. It's an amazing cinematic achievement. But I warn you - have tissues handy. The scene in the garbage dump, where they're staring the end in the face, and they all join hands? Oh my God!!! The weeping! Anyway, I assume they will eventually release a Toy Story trilogy DVD set, and when they do, I'm going to have to pick that up and introduce Griffin to these films.
Ratatouille - Speaking of Pixar, I missed a lot of their movies! Seeing this one was my first step toward catching up. I almost didn't finish it, though. I watched the first ten minutes or so and I got bored and turned it off. I just couldn't connect with it. I didn't care about a rat who could cook. I think part of my problem, oddly enough, is that I was having trouble suspending my disbelief. Usually at the opening of a movie, I have almost no problem with that; I'm willing to accept nearly any crazy premise you want to feed me, as long as the rest of the movie follows logically from that premise. But for whatever reason I had a hard time accepting a world where rats can not only cook, but also read, and understand human speech. Oh, and they can also talk to each other just like we do, we just can't understand them. I know it's ridiculous for me to rebel at something like that considering all the other insane things I'm willing to believe, but what can I say? I'm fickle. Anyway, I eventually turned the movie back on and watched the rest of it, and it ended up winning me over. I continued to have issues with suspension of disbelief, especially during the sequence [SPOILERS AHEAD!] where the rats take over the working of the kitchen entirely, and the sequence where the famous food critic accepts that his delicious meal was cooked by a rat. But by that time I cared about the characters, I'd bought into the story, and I was willing to let things slide. Plus, c'mon, the scene with the health inspector is hilarious. Ultimately, it's a really sweet story with a rather wonderful moral: not everyone is an artist, but great artists can come from anywhere. I was particularly moved by the scene in which Anton Ego (who's a wonderful character with a great name and a perfect voice - thank you, Peter O'Toole) eats the ratatouille and is instantly transported back to his childhood. It's a wordless sequence that captures perfectly what's so comforting about comfort food, and how deeply someone can be affected by great food - and, by extension, great art. This is not one of Pixar's great works, but it's definitely a fun and lovable film.
Ponyo - I haven't caught up with Pixar yet, but now that I've seen this movie, I've caught up with Hayao Miyazaki. I've seen all his feature length films, and although there are a few I didn't love, there isn't one that I disliked. This latest work is another masterpiece - a simple, weird, beautiful, gentle film which is Miyazaki's take on "The Little Mermaid." It's about how a child's love is so blind and pure, it can save the world. It's also about how ham is delicious. It's a ridiculously cute film, with riotously colorful, insanely imaginative, jaw-droppingly epic visuals. The story is simple, yet also deep. Miyazaki's usual plea for humanity to treat nature with care is delivered with more subtlety than he's used in the past. He introduces us to the characters and their relationships and tells us their stories with careful mastery, using a minimum of words and backstory. We see a mother looking up at her child out of one eye, and in that glance are a thousand words - none of which need to be said aloud, and so they are not. As with many Miyazaki films, Ponyo is pretty much devoid of villains. The "evil wizard" turns out to be more frustrated and misguided than evil, and even the cranky old lady has a good heart. Nobody can paint shades of gray more beautifully than Miyazaki. |
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| Monday, June 7, 2010 09:58 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Great new Star Wars-flavored Adidas ad above. I want more videos of Snoop Dogg wasting dudes with a lightsaber.
- The Scott Pilgrim movie continues to look awesome. Check out this clip.
- This is supposedly the first poster for Captain America: The First Avenger (via). This poster for Green Lantern is more definitively official.
- Marvel's got a miniseries coming called The Death of Dracula. Here are some preview pages. Supposedly Dracula's death is going to have huge consequences for the Marvel Universe as a whole. I'm vaguely curious, but I'm not familiar with the writer or the artist, and these preview pages aren't all that exciting. Plus, didn't Paul Cornell already kill Dracula in Captain Britain and MI13? Or am I remembering that wrong? (Via)
- Check out a brand new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Pretty exciting!
- How to turn your van into Appa.
- In a recent interview, Christopher Nolan said there will be no Joker, Mr. Freeze, or Penguin in Batman 3. He also says it will be the end of a story. And he seems set on his (rather disappointing) idea of keeping Batman and Superman separate.
- Some dude remade Zelda II as a 3D FPS you can play in your browser. I always thought this game was the least interesting and most frustratingly difficult of the Zelda games, and Joystiq says this new version is even more difficult than the original, so I think I'll skip it. Still, cool idea.
- FYI, that "sinkhole" in Guatemala is actually a "piping feature," which is apparently something even more dangerous. (Via)
- Oh my.
- A readaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is on the way, this time directed by Let The Right One In director Tomas Alfredson and starring Garry Oldman as George Smiley. Neat!
- Woah, Julie Taymor's doing The Tempest with a cast that includes Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Djimon Hounsou, Russel Brand, Alan Cumming, Chris Cooper, David Strathairn, Ben Whishaw, and Felicity Jones. Sign me up!
- Guillermo del Toro may have left The Hobbit to direct The Great and Powerful Oz.
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| Friday, June 4, 2010 09:53 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
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| Monday, May 24, 2010 09:43 AM |
| On the Viewer - Beowulf (2007) |
 by Fëanor |
I finally got around to watching Robert Zemeckis' computer-animated, motion-capture film adaptation of everybody's favorite epic Old English poem. Well, I didn't really watch the whole movie, but I saw large portions of it, including the ending, so I think I got the gist. If you haven't seen the film yet, you might want to skip the rest of this post, as I'll be dropping some pretty big spoilers.
Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary wrote the screenplay, and man did they totally alter the story! And seeing as how I actually really enjoy the story, and the original poem as a whole (what can I say, I was an English major), I found it hard to get over all the changes they made. The original poem tells a relatively simple story about a man who was essentially an ancient superhero. He is ridiculously strong and incredible. He kills two monsters, becomes a king, and then many years later, kills another monster, and in the process, dies. The end. The movie adds many more layers and connections to this story - secrets and lies and twisted sex. It makes Beowulf into a flawed and fallible man (Beowulf actually says in the movie that he wants to be remembered as a flawed and fallible man, which is a pretty corny line), when the point of the original story was that he was not that at all - he was effing Superman! The original poem was also written by a man looking back on heathen heroes and legends from a Christian perspective, and recasting them and their actions from that perspective. But the film tries to take the perspective of the heathens, and Beowulf even gets a line where he trashes Christianity. There's also gratuitous nudity and gratuitously disgusting violence. I mean, did we really need to see Grendel bite that dude's head off and chew it like that? Did we really need to see Beowulf punch Grendel in the side of the head until he busted his eardrum open and juice came out? Ugh. Speaking of Grendel, the film's conception of him is very unsettling: he's presented as a large, angry, disabled child. It's a little hard to cheer Beowulf on when he's fighting this thing. And the computer-generated people aren't nearly as impressive as Zemeckis seems to think they are. Sometimes their faces seem realistic and manage to convey real, human emotions, but other times they just look like dumb, wooden masks.
A few things that struck me as odd and fascinating: during his fight with Beowulf, Grendel seems to exhibit various magical abilities - when he enters the mead hall, the fire turns blue and swirls upward with a howl, and unless I was misunderstanding what I was seeing, he moves a spear with his mind in order to stab one of the warriors. Also, as Beowulf is ripping Grendel's arm off, he shouts a quick speech by way of introduction which sounds almost as if it were cribbed from John Gardner's Grendel (a fascinating, postmodern reimagining of the poem from the monster's perspective that I highly recommend) rather than the original poem: "I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! I AM BEOWULF!" By that I kill you?
Despite my misgivings about the movie's changes, I have to admit the story the movie tells is a pretty strong one that seems, at least on the surface, and judged on the qualities of modern narrative, more cohesive than the original. It has one, continuous plot-line with various strong themes running through it: the desire for power and glory can poison and destroy you; the sins of the fathers come home to roost; never have sex with Angelina Jolie because she'll have a baby and it will be really annoying. (That last one is a moral I'm sure Brad Pitt can appreciate. Zing!)
But seriously. I have to admit that the story Gaiman, Avary, and Zemeckis tell here is pretty intriguing and moving, and the open-ended and highly evocative conclusion is very powerful. The suggestion that the reason Beowulf's story has survived and that we know it now is because of the deal he made with Grendel's mother is an interesting, metatextual one. Plus Beowulf's fight with the dragon is amazing. When he's chained to it by his arm, and realizes that in order to win he will have to cut his own arm off, and that this is the very way he killed Grendel - wow. In his attempt to stab the dragon in the heart, he drops his sword, and ends up having to swing himself back by his severed arm, swoop in, and rip the dragon's heart out of its chest with his bare hand. That is just about the most bad-ass thing of all time.
So really I'm of two minds about the film. As an adaptation, it's pretty much a failure, as it completely alters the source material. But as a reimagining and commentary upon the source material, and as a film considered on its own merits, it's actually not bad.
One good thing it did: it made me want to read the original poem again. So I took our copy of Seamus Heaney's celebrated verse translation down off the bookshelf and start reading it finally. In fact, I started reading it aloud to poppy and Griffin. I kind of wish I could read it in the original Anglo-Saxon, because I bet that would sound really cool. There are prose translations of Beowulf, and I remember reading one that I enjoyed, but I definitely prefer the translations that stick as close as possible to the original format. I like Old English poetry, with its kennings and its alliteration and its caesuras. I appreciate that Tolkien used a similar format when writing the poetry of the Rohirrim in Lord of the Rings. Speaking of which, I was fascinated to read in the introduction to Heaney's Beowulf how instrumental Tolkien was in changing the way the poem is read and appreciated.
But I've wandered a bit far afield here, so I'll stop now. The point is: if you want to avoid reading Beowulf for your English class and think you can just watch the movie instead, you're wrong. |
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| Thursday, May 20, 2010 05:57 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Jemaine "Flight of the Concords" Clement has been cast as a villain in the next Men in Black movie. Good choice!
- Check out the trailer for ABC's superhero family show, No Ordinary Family. As io9 says, it looks like sort of a live-action Incredibles. Could be fun!
- More info and a promo image from Spielberg's upcoming time-traveling TV show, Terra Nova.
- A cute illustration of most of the Doctor's female companions.
- Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will start filming this September, and it looks like Ewan McGregor has taken Johnny Depp's place in the movie.
- This is pretty clever - somebody used a bunch of footage from old, black and white sci-fi serials to reimagine The Empire Strikes Back as a 3D flick from the '50s.
- A handy sci-fi TV movie title generator!
- Super Sexy CPR is exactly what it says it is. Probably NSFW.
- Excellent Mike Mignola recreation of a famous cover of Detective Comics.
- A blog of amazing Dune illustrations. (Via)
- Sounds like Drew Barrymore might direct a Wizard of Oz sequel.
- Mark Hamill is directing a film adaptation of his own comic book series, The Dark Pearl.
- An early draft of the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back has surfaced, and Crave Online has an interesting analysis of the rather large differences between this screenplay and the one that was finally filmed. (Via)
- Harry Potter is now the most successful cinematic franchise of all time.
- Megan Fox is out of Transformers 3! Now there's even less reason to see that movie.
- It's Thor! Thor is cool.
- Paul Greengrass is not directing Fantastic Voyage after all.
- MTV is making a Teen Wolf TV show. Aren't they over 20 years late on that?
- A proof-of-concept trailer for a samurai/ninja/sci-fi movie called The Cup of Tears is getting turned into a full-length feature film.
- A clip from the upcoming reimagining of Nikita. Interestingly, it looks sort of like a sequel to the original series - Nikita had gotten out, and now she's come back. Hmm...
- Tron Mr. Toast!
- Great illustration of Luke playing Connect Four with a Wampa.
- There are some fun tracks on the latest Wired Playlist, including Flaming Lips covering Pink Floyd.
- The writer and director of Field of Dreams will write the script for J.J. Abrams' upcoming heist flick. Intriguing!
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