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OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts) Wed Dec 24, 2014, 09:27 PM Dec 2014

William S Burroughs - The Junky's Christmas Full Version.

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William S Burroughs - The Junky's Christmas Full Version. (Original Post) OnyxCollie Dec 2014 OP

don't we all think of William on Xmass Eve ? olddots Dec 2014 #1

You mean the book, or that train wreck of a movie that had the same name? Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #2

It was a cross between Naked Lunch and the Burroughs biography, Literary Outlaw. OnyxCollie Dec 2014 #3

I give them props for trying. zappaman Dec 2014 #4

I actually thought Fear And Loathing was a valiantly straight interpetation of the book, hard as Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #5

olddots

(10,237 posts)

1. don't we all think of William on Xmass Eve ?

Reply to OnyxCollie (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2014, 09:39 PM

Dec 2014

Gotta find Naked Lunch and stream it .

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

2. You mean the book, or that train wreck of a movie that had the same name?

Reply to olddots (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 24, 2014, 10:08 PM

Dec 2014

I dont know what they were making, but it wasnt that book. Not that you could actually make that book into a movie, ever.

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)

3. It was a cross between Naked Lunch and the Burroughs biography, Literary Outlaw.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 24, 2014, 11:44 PM

Dec 2014

zappaman

(20,606 posts)

4. I give them props for trying.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 25, 2014, 12:36 AM

Dec 2014

But it really made no sense trying to film it.
I feel the same way about FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

5. I actually thought Fear And Loathing was a valiantly straight interpetation of the book, hard as

Reply to zappaman (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 25, 2014, 05:22 AM

Dec 2014

that would be to do.

I mean, tough to get the lizards and shit right, but all in all it was pretty close to the actual text.

But then I love Terry Gilliam. His 'failures' are 100 times better than most peoples' successes. Far and away one of my favorite directors of all time.

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