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Soderberg FUCKS Stanislaw LEM
 

offline skyfarmer from a bigger, more complex and tun (Russia) on 2002-12-30 22:44 [#00495992]
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Do any of you know who Stanislaw Lem is? He's the biggest
sci-fi writer of the century. I wanna know if you people
have any idea....

why am I bringing up the subj?..

Soderbergh has done this shameful ridiculosity called the
screenplay of Lem's 'Solaris'... Solaris is the story about
that sentient ocean-planet and people who try to set up some
contact with the uncomprehensible thing. Soderbergh is an
idiot.

1. He made a love drama out of it.. well, nothing to be
ashamed of, but well why call the goddamn movie 'Solaris'
then

2. The pale slim cynic guy dr.Sartorius... HE MADE HIM A
WOMAN! A FUCKING BLACK WOMAN!!! No
problem with rac- or sexism, but WTF?! Is it a political
correctness thing?! They would accuse him of kukluxklanity
if he had only white people in the movie. Fuck Soderbergh!


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-12-30 23:12 [#00496010]
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I havnt seen the original, nor read the book (although I
REALLY want to) but I did see the new version.

I must say I LOVED it.

I cant comment on the whole love thing, but to my knowledge,
the original is also about love.

as far as the changing of the race/sex of the Dr.... I read
in an interveiw, that he wanted to balance out the cast...
instead of having 3 guys and one girl, he wanted a more
stable feeling... so it wasnt like the guys were dominating.
Something to that extent...

but anyways, I loved the new movie, and I LOVED the score.

Sorry if it let you down...


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-12-30 23:13 [#00496012]
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*and being black had nothing to do with it. He had worked
with that actress before, and she was exactly what he was
looking for characterwise.


 

offline neetta from Finland on 2002-12-31 00:58 [#00496077]
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they really did that?!? i call blasphemy on this! :((


 

offline Cheffe1979 from fuck (Austria) on 2002-12-31 02:49 [#00496136]
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i read all stanislaw lem!! it's a shame!!

and i agree, he's the most important sci.fi writer of 20th
century


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-12-31 02:51 [#00496138]
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i still loved it

:P


 

offline Cheffe1979 from fuck (Austria) on 2002-12-31 03:02 [#00496154]
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no, the original is not about love, it's about man and
nature and the ways man interact and try to understand
nature and how the attempts fail. lem uses sci-fi as a means
for showing the reader that human perception is weak and can
be confused easily.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-12-31 03:04 [#00496155]
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hmmm

well, what can you do.

just try and appriciate this new one for what it is? a love
story


 

offline Cheffe1979 from fuck (Austria) on 2002-12-31 03:10 [#00496157]
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yeah, and call it

solaris - remake for mentally engaged

a film can never exactly replace a book (neither can a book
replace a film), but if the film misses the point (and one
of the main points are the fears of satorius) than there's
no need for the film.

they also made a 'biography' of Wiles, the mathematician and
left out his love affairs, for the 'american market'. fuck
that.



 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-12-31 03:11 [#00496158]
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such bitterness

ill overlook that direct insult to me


 

offline Cheffe1979 from fuck (Austria) on 2002-12-31 03:13 [#00496161]
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whatever


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-12-31 03:14 [#00496163]
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indeed


 

offline skyfarmer from a bigger, more complex and tun (Russia) on 2002-12-31 05:27 [#00496279]
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solaris - remake for mentally engaged

lol mate that was precise

Zeus, yes of course you can like the new version, but it's a
shame to call it "Solaris", as its point is MUCH different
from the original. BTW, the Tarkowsky film is great, but it
avoids Lem's theme too, though not as much and not such a
way as in Soderbergh's 'Solaris: The Politically Correct
Planet' version. Tarkowsky did a mindblasting film, no
matter the difference between book and his vision of it
(which is a tiny one), and I didn't particularly like the
new appearance of the "love story" element with Clooney and
stuff... I'm sorry if I'm too rude on the comments, but I
really think it's a blasphemy!

quote:
-Lem will turn in his grave!
-He isn't dead yet
-He WILL BE, when he sees that!



 

offline glass_eater from a blind nerves area (Switzerland) on 2002-12-31 05:30 [#00496283]
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yes fuck him
btw i love stanislas lem
:)


 

offline skyfarmer from a bigger, more complex and tun (Russia) on 2002-12-31 05:35 [#00496291]
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my favourite Lem's novel is "Mask"... about the machine
created to assasinate some man, and was supposed to get in
love with him as a beautiful woman etc


 

offline glass_eater from a blind nerves area (Switzerland) on 2002-12-31 05:36 [#00496294]
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i loved ijon tichy memories



 

offline Cheffe1979 from fuck (Austria) on 2002-12-31 05:51 [#00496315]
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the best one is 'the futurological congress' or whatever it
might be called in english. a mindblowing novel!!


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2002-12-31 14:36 [#00496694]
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soderbergh shall burn in hell
i love lem
the star diaries are so essential.
i found the matrix idea in it and so much more, almost any
philosophical question or sci-fi film is included in his
works.
its a shame somebody makes movies of it, turning away from
the main theme or "writing it different"...


 

offline skyfarmer from a bigger, more complex and tun (Russia) on 2002-12-31 18:22 [#00496812]
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wait, the Mask is not my fav at all
it's my father's

the Diaries thing is the ancestor of Douglas Adams's tHHGttG
!


 


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