Good video! I actually had to read Bonfire in my modern fiction class in the late 80's -- in NYC, in fact -- and loved it. (Most of Tom Wolfe's books are total pageturners.) But never had any interest in the movie, though it came out straightaway. If you read just a few pages, you realize it's a total satirical commentary on the 80's and the characters are archetypes. (American Psycho is one of very few movies that get it right.) It didn't help that the casting was woefully misbegotten. Every reader at the time was envisioning William Hurt as the McCoy, so why even mess with that. And, as you say, the Britishness of the Fallow character and the whiteness/Jewishness of the judge played by Freeman were critical to those characters-as-archetypes. Am reading Devil's Candy right now, which led me to this clip--it details the mishap in this movie's making. Strong recommend!
Hey I am a big fan of your channel which has also inspired me to read more. I wanted to share 3 stories I think you should do next Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy The Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris And The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker. Just 3 stories I think you would like 😊
This sounds like a wild story to get invested in. I have to check it out one day. Great Review!
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Good video! I actually had to read Bonfire in my modern fiction class in the late 80's -- in NYC, in fact -- and loved it. (Most of Tom Wolfe's books are total pageturners.) But never had any interest in the movie, though it came out straightaway. If you read just a few pages, you realize it's a total satirical commentary on the 80's and the characters are archetypes. (American Psycho is one of very few movies that get it right.) It didn't help that the casting was woefully misbegotten. Every reader at the time was envisioning William Hurt as the McCoy, so why even mess with that. And, as you say, the Britishness of the Fallow character and the whiteness/Jewishness of the judge played by Freeman were critical to those characters-as-archetypes.
Am reading Devil's Candy right now, which led me to this clip--it details the mishap in this movie's making. Strong recommend!
Hey I am a big fan of your channel which has also inspired me to read more. I wanted to share 3 stories I think you should do next
Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy
The Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris
And The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker.
Just 3 stories I think you would like 😊
Would be cool to see you compare Clueless to Emma since it sorta based on Emma but in a "mondern" (90s) setting!
Good Video & Explanation. I'd like to see A Remake, based on the book, which I haven't read. Let me know what you think