tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post1191486520423139235..comments2023-12-18T07:59:16.525-05:00Comments on Hats and Rabbits: The Crime of ChivalryChris Matarazzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-88000961856957451292012-07-09T13:17:34.653-04:002012-07-09T13:17:34.653-04:00Chris, That's right about Bradbury! I had forg...Chris, That's right about Bradbury! I had forgotten Ray wrote that. <br /><br />NeilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-71004796626320483702012-07-08T14:22:08.005-04:002012-07-08T14:22:08.005-04:00Hi, Neil -- thanks; and thanks for stopping by. Gl...Hi, Neil -- thanks; and thanks for stopping by. Glad the internet gods were kind this time. <br /><br />Definitely let me know what you think after you second look at Winesburg. I really think that book was a light that shone on the parts of my fiction writing philosophy that I wasn't conscious of. It certainly had a profound effect. Again, I appreciate your keeping up with my blog.<br /><br />Oh -- didn't mention this in my post, but Bradbury credits Winesburg with inspiring The Martian Chronicles. I can totally see it.Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-74969692580360274122012-07-08T14:17:27.426-04:002012-07-08T14:17:27.426-04:00Jeff -- they certainly seem to be out-clevering th...Jeff -- they certainly seem to be out-clevering themselves, don't they? Perhaps it is a result of arrogance: "Burroughs "was cute and all, but we've come a long way since then."Maybe not.Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-27932728470184759382012-07-07T12:07:12.162-04:002012-07-07T12:07:12.162-04:00Great Piece, Chris--thanks for it.
I was especia...Great Piece, Chris--thanks for it. <br /><br />I was especially drawn to your reaction to reading Winesburg, Ohio recently, and it brought back my memory of a "WOW! deeply felt response to reading that book more than four decades ago.<br /><br />Thanks to you I am jumping Winesburg, Ohio to my top 10 books to read and reread. Then I will pick a Carter novel and read one (not portions) for the first time.<br /><br />Thanks for the reads. NeilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-63106795153208236082012-07-06T23:39:43.634-04:002012-07-06T23:39:43.634-04:00The other weird thing about the attempt to moderni...The other weird thing about the attempt to modernize John Carter is that filmmakers are trading on a name--Edgar Rice Burroughs--and then making these new movies unrecognizable to people who consider themselves Burroughs fans. Hollywood has done the same thing with movies based on Robert E. Howard characters: Kull, Solomon Kane, and the recent Conan movie. It's not clear to me what benefit they think they're gaining from doing this, since vocal fans of the original books tend to hate these movies. If "A Princess of Mars" is way too 1912 for moviegoers in 2012, why continue to slap the name on a story and characters Burroughs wouldn't have recognized? Why not just make some other space-fantasy set on Mars, without a hundred years of pulp baggage?Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-34402582806966549822012-07-06T09:41:38.255-04:002012-07-06T09:41:38.255-04:00Great, 'nora. Thanks for the tip -- I'll c...Great, 'nora. Thanks for the tip -- I'll check her work out.Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-47607165921417246232012-07-06T07:02:21.856-04:002012-07-06T07:02:21.856-04:00I need to get to work and thus don't have time...I need to get to work and thus don't have time for a long comment now, but two quick things: mostly I agree (I might quibble some points) and are you familiar with Anita Sarkeesian's work? Her current project has to do with tropes in video games, but she's talked about books and movies (and sometimes books v. movies!) in the past. Her website is http://www.feministfrequency.com/'norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673994227824410949noreply@blogger.com