It’s good to see Hollywood finally recognising the dramatic potential of a movie about co-operative shadow puppetry.
Maria Tatar on ‘Grimm Hollywood’
The mythical always stages a comeback in times of high anxiety about technology and the atrophy of our affective life
Interesting comment from Maria Tatar on Hollywood’s ‘resurgence of interest in fairy tales’.
“Up your gizzard, you fat pimp”
Jeremy Duns in The Independent reveals some details from the unfilmed adaptation of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, scripted by the so-called ‘Shakespeare of Hollywood’ Ben Hecht. The script was written in the early 1960s and had been sitting with Hecht’s papers in Chicago’s Newberry Library since 1979. Sounds like it would have made a cracking Bond flick.
The Big LEGOwski
Nicely shot LEGO® recreation of certain scenes from the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski by Lennart Bendixen. The moustaches on LEGO® The Jesus’s compadre are a nice touch. (Thanks to Phil Sherry for the link.)