So apparently they made a movie based off of some book. The Da Vinci Code? Did anyone actually read that?
Do I have to read it now? Or can I just avoid the whole thing? I guess I am just failing to see the point. That, and I hate getting swept up into massive pop culture fads.
Have I mentioned that Tom Hanks' hair frightens me?
Maybe I'll just watch Amelie again, get my Audrey Tautou fix, and be done with it.
I'm still waiting for a parody. Perhaps The Warhol Code? In which his art predicts future celebrities who will be famous for fifteen minutes? But it goes beyond that. The artwork acts like the image of Dorian Gray; pop celebrities stay famous so long as the painting exists. In the movie version, people sick of Paris Hilton attempt to locate the Warhol artwork that is keeping her in the public eye, wishing to destroy it in order to send her back into "poor little rich girl" obscurity.
We'll start the whole thing off with an animated short in which a technicolour Marilyn Monroe crashes into a gigantic can of soup, getting sucked inside the can into a hallucinogenic soup-world.
Yeah, okay, I took this one a little too far...
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I can lend it to you after I'm done, I'm borrowing it from my dad.
I think you can probably skip the movie---it was met with titters when it premiered at Cannes a couple of days ago. The book is pretty much what you'd expect it to be: pulpy with painfully obvious devices by which he developed "suspense" (so many ellipses!) Beach/airplane reading to the MAX.
Yes, I think I'll sacrifice that chunk of watercooler knowledge in favor of the stack of books I already have sitting around waiting for eyes to behold them.
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