On the Road movie

[WIREMAN]

Did u see it?....if u did what did u think and feel about it?

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I have not seen it. How do I feel about it? Ambivalent.

I would be interested to know how you feel about it.

[WIREMAN]

Hey Jack.......bottom line is I was sorely disappointed. Big letdown after waiting so long. Jack was bad casting....Neal was terribly cast, the guy being nothing like Neal. The screenplay adaptation was a skim of the original. The 3 mid 20's young women I watched it with thought it sucked....the visuals were excellent though. Levi thought it was alright. I'd say it should have been made 50 years ago.

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Thanks for the feedback. That's what I meant about being ambivalent. I got my own movie of the novel playing in my head. I did not want to super impose another on it.

[WIREMAN]

It's really a let down....nothing exciting in it....maybe u just had to be in those times....the only character who was any good was Mary Lou played by Christine Stewart in the book it was a minor role.....I dunno Jack, Kerouac wrote the now famous letter to marlon Brandon trying to get him to play Cody, Jack himself as Sal Paradise....back in the day it woulda been amazing in B&W.....

[WIREMAN]

The letter to Brando....

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Jesus H Christ
How could they screw it up, he wrote the freaking movie for them. I been trying to write that same movie for years with the road unwinding into the windshield.
like watching Husserl's Phenomenological TV.

Thank you for letting me see that letter. I have only read the first paragraph so far —I am too blown away to continue at this point in time...be back later after I finish reading it.

Search found 7 matches: husserl s tv windshield
http://studioeight.tv/phpbb/search.php? ... mit=Search

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[WIREMAN]

....talk about changing the world....what would it be like if they had done it, him and marlon....hell he mighta lived to this day.....not drunk himself to death....mightas???
It is what it is....I think my picture in my mind of the 50's is there....clear....but jack and Neal that's right after the war.....what a fuckin time.....not many folks got that pic in their mind....

[short timer]

Not sure if Jack would call Sylvia Plath a "real gone chick" but she had a picture of the fifties in her mind too.

[WIREMAN]

Some jack stuff I put out there recently .......

[stilltrucking]

Harping on a sacred harp
Jack was a sweet guy
Pity he and Sylvia did not hook up in NYC that queer sultry day they executed the Rosenbergs in 1953
if ever a college girl needed a good time it was her

I was going to write a trash novel about Jack and Sylvia going off together into the mad new york city night.

Levi was amused, what a ego trip I was on.

Harp on amigo

the world unwinding into the windshield, how many mile—years I saw the world framed by a the windshield of a Peterbilt, it just keeps coming at you, the sound of that diesel throbbing becomes a sacred syllable, it was my zazen if that is the word I want, Jack is a puzzle for me, the Buddhist devout Catholic. I loved his sweetness but I envied him his daughter.

ramble gamble thoughts first for what it is worth.

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Parallel Destinies in The Bell Jar and On the Road
Hilary Holladay, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

There is no evidence that Jack Kerouac and Sylvia Plath, those two archetypes of
the confessional urge, ever met. But if they had been introduced in the fall of 1957,
when Kerouac had just published On the Road and Plath was at Smith College (her alma mater) teaching freshman English, they would have had plenty to talk about.
They might have discussed Joyce, Lawrence, and Dostoyevski, authors they both greatly admired. They might have talked about what it was like growing up in Massachusetts, Kerouac in worrking-class Lowell and Plath in Wellesley, an idyllic college town. As the highachieving offspring of immigrants—. . .
—they could have compared the ways their ethnic origins
shaped their identities and ambitions.

http://www.iun.edu/~nwadmin/plath/vol1/holladay.pdf

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He might have seen a flicker of disdain cross Plath’s animated face if
they had met not long after the publication of On the Road.

ibid

Thinking about the author of that paper, she would probably think my idea of an adulterous road movie with jack and sylvia a silly idea.

Since she was at the time deeply in love with Ted Hughes, the English poet
whom she had married in 1956, she would not have been romantically interested in
Kerouac, but the sensualist in her would have appreciated his blue eyes and brooding
intensity. And if she had heard him read his own work aloud, she would have surely
admired the musical rhythms of his voice as well as his innate feel for language

.also ibid