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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003
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Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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 Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject: Bloom |
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Bloomsday is coming ---again. ......4 June 2004......(those are ellipses)...
Ive read a quarter of it. it's not so hard. Only took me twenty years.
No, seriously, it's a fairly easy read.
Why is this relevant to the ESL world? Not sure... is Shakespeare relevant? maybe not. Anyway, for your info---
It is the 100th anniversary this year. The Irish Ministry of culture is mounting exhibitions in cities around the world but, typically, they dont have a website, so I cant tell you where. Well, i cant be assed to type out all the cites. There are quite a few.
Someone has made a movie to mark the occasion, too. here is the bumf:
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JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES HITS THE BIG SCREEN
At last, a dazzling feature film from the greatest comic novel of
the twentieth century, the book that you always meant to read but
never quite did, the book that invented "stream of consciousness",
the idea that what happens inside our heads is more important than
physical reality � James Joyce's "Ulysses", 100 years old this year.
It comes, surprising and hilarious, complete with all the taboo
subjects that shocked its first readers � fantasy sex, masturbation,
racism, sado-masochism and transvestism � and suitably outrageous
performances by its stars, Academy Award nominee Stephen Rea as you
never saw him before and award-winning Angeline Ball at her sexiest.
The film tells the story of the real and fantastic journey through
Edwardian Dublin on 16th June 1904 of Stephen Dedalus (Hugh
O'Connor), struggling young poet with parent problems, Leopold Bloom
(Stephen Rea), frustrated and fantasizing, and his wife Molly
(Angeline Ball), sexy and adulterous.
"I wanted to make this great work accessible to a lot more people,"
says Sean Walsh, the film's director. Creating a script that
condensed this complex novel to less than two hours screen time,
raising the finance and making the movie has taken him ten
years. "It was a mountain I had always wanted to climb," he
says, "and I finally achieved it in a style that reveals its
humanity and humour and echoes the literary tricks that Joyce
originated."
Authority on Joyce, Senator David Norris feels the film is "a
triumphant re-interpretation of James Joyce's masterpiece,
brilliant, witty, innovative and imaginatively faithful to Joyce's
work".
"Bloom" opens in cinemas in Dublin, Cork and Galway on Friday 16th
April before continuing around the country.
Further information from: Stoney Road Films� 01-677 6681
e-mail: [email protected]
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Dr.J
Joined: 09 May 2003
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Location: usually Japan
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How strange, I happen to be reading (or, to put it another way, not reading) Ulysses at the moment. It's like reading a brick. Plenty there but you can't seem to turn the pages. Still, I always get the sense that I'm doing something worthwhile so it stays around.
I considered what a film version would be like, but you would have to animate it (or use a huge amount of CG) to get in all the fantastic images and ideas, a lot of which are cemented in the writing style. |
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Aramas
Joined: 13 Feb 2004
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Location: Slightly left of Centre
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:28 am Post subject: |
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I'd like to see a film of Finnegans Wake - not that I'd like to watch it. Just laughing at the confusion would be amusing enough  |
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