(Oh yes, and they have the addition of Seymour the record collector, who wasn't in the graphic novel (or at least didn't have a name); fortunately, his interaction with Enid isn't the usual cloying romantic-comedy fare about kindred spirits finding each other and love conquering all and all that Working Title/Miramax schmaltz. They didn't make a High Fidelity out of it, thankfully.)
I usually only go to see films with other people; though this time I'm glad I saw Ghost World alone; this is the sort of film whose effect would be spoiled by seeing it in a group as part of a social activity.
I'll probably get this on DVD when it comes out.
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The movie was dumbed down and made superficial; the ending was completely fake; and the way they tied all those loose ends into a neat, artificial, Big Happy Ending was a tad on the nauseating side. The book was better, before Miramax got their hands on it. Still haven't seen About A Boy though.
Oh bollocks. The movie was great.
Imho GW was fine apart from one thing: why was robert crumb 'honored' with that 'character cameo'?
As I understand it the book was re-written, by the author's own hand, or at least with his approval, to make it more palatable, or whatever. so why did we get a re-hash of half of the documentary 'Crumb' in Ghost World? (non-'PC' poster, blues records, sketches of kooky people in cafes, etc)
Crumb was a good documentary, but I didn't need to see elements of it re-appear in an adaptation of someone else's story.
I await enlightenment.
The DVD comes with the fantastic Bollywood musical number from the beginning in its entirety. I watch that music video more often than the film.
> The movie was dumbed down and made superficial; the ending was completely fake; and the way they tied all those loose ends into a neat, artificial, Big Happy Ending was a tad on the nauseating side.
that's exactly why i didn't like amelie all that much! as for ghost world, the book was better, keke :) just that they hosed rebecca's and enid's relationship in favor of seymour's and enid's. blah! yeah, and high fidelity was pretty contrived as well :) which by the way labored under the same central conceit--a self-conscious soundtrack, j/k :)
sorry, no really, it's that socialization (even into a non-traditional family) is the solution to ALL LIFE'S PROBLEMS, esp for non-conformists! like the onion compared it to lilo & stitch :) altho i liked lilo & stitch better because of the alien elvis impersonator and cuz it was animated :)
The socialisation comment is interesting. I suppose it's the more general case of "romantic love is the answer", and the importance of having a partner to one's value as a human being/the meaning of one's existence.
It's even more subtle; while it's relatively easy to deprogram oneself from associating romantic involvement with existential meaning, the socialisation thing is harder to question.
I actually enjoyed High Fidelity the movie more than the book. Is this wrong? Tho' the book was pretty good.