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Broken in Two
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on May 23, 2017, 12:39:08 pm ---A little aside: an early version of the screenplay includes directions for various old Western songs to be placed in particular scenes. The titles often cleverly related to the action, one way or another. Of course, I can't think of one right now... I did take notes once. They are all different from what ended up in the film--like "It's So Easy", D-I-V-O-R-C-E", etc.
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Did it have anything to do with permissions?
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 23, 2017, 01:11:19 pm ---Did it have anything to do with permissions?
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Don't know. Possibly.
I think I might start a new thread and include Diana's original music choices, from the 2003 screenplay.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: southendmd on May 23, 2017, 01:08:18 pm ---the spelling shifted to Dylan in Dinkytown. Bob began plumbing the depths of world literature, “reading the poetry of Pound and Eliot, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg; the novels of Kerouac and William Burroughs and Dylan Thomas
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Good to know that he acquired his worldly reading habits in the neighborhood bordering the campus of my alma mater. Amanda and her friend Ashley visited there about a year ago to see a band they like that was playing in what used to be a movie theater.
Would reading Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg and Burroughs, let alone Kerouac, be that exotic in 1959, though? That would be like a college student today reading David Foster Wallace or Thomas Pynchon or Cormac McCarthy -- or me reading Tom Wolfe or Joan Didion in the late '70s -- intellectually stimulating for sure, but hardly "plumbing the depths of world literature." More like "books that were popular among smart college students of his day."
I tried reading On the Road when I was in my mid-20s and wound up throwing it across the room. It's one of those books you have to read when you're really young or forget it.
Front-Ranger:
And a belated happy birthday to the man himself! But, since Bob Dylan is living life backwards, he can celebrate his birthday today too-- ("I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.")
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 25, 2017, 10:59:30 am ---And a belated happy birthday to the man himself! But, since Bob Dylan is living life backwards, he can celebrate his birthday today too-- ("I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.")
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I saw a movie in which that happened to Brad Pitt ("Benjamin Button"). It ends sadly, though, with the protagonist a baby who no longer recognizes his lifelong friend, a woman who was his romantic partner for the brief period their ages coincided.
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