On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 at 10:13 Tony Renner sent: Miami Blues
(was RE: RARA-AVIS: We're HOW Old? and Willeford)
>I thought the film of Miami Blues tried too hard to
be faithful to the book.
>Some of the dialogue -- that was great on the page --
just didn't work on
>screen.
The major problem with the MIAMI BLUES film, I thought, was
that Hoke's interior monologues were entirely missing. These
thought processes is what gave the book a great deal of its
narrative texture and, hence, its charm.
Bruce T. =
btownley@sirius.com
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"Don't hurry. Oblivion will be there eventually."
-Edward D. Wood Jr., HOLLYWOOD RAT RACE
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