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Old 03-27-2008, 09:18 PM   #821 (permalink)
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oh well, who wasn't a racist back then

but that's beside the point, i think what makes lovecraft's stories
so difficult to translate onto the screen is because he tries to conjur
up images completely detached from reality and everyday experience
and doing that visually is a quite difficult task.
i think the only one i've seen is Dagon and it was a mess.
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Old 03-27-2008, 10:02 PM   #822 (permalink)
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That's a short story, not a poem and if you're going to call someone racist you should back it up. Like this:
I never said it was a poem and I didn't put that poem because of I thought that the n word wasn't allowed.
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Old 03-28-2008, 12:28 AM   #823 (permalink)
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That's a short story, not a poem and if you're going to call someone racist you should back it up. Like this:

"When, long ago, the gods created Earth. In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were designed; Yet were too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest of Man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Filled it with vice, and called the thing a ******."
- HP Lovecraft "On the Creation of ******s"
lolol that was completely unexpected to me.
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Old 03-28-2008, 08:36 AM   #824 (permalink)
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I love this movie it's probably my favorite out of the horrorfest 2007....I haven't finished watching all eight yet though but this will be definitely be in my top 3 if not my favorite
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Old 03-28-2008, 01:34 PM   #825 (permalink)
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I saw Horton Hears A Who last week with my girlfriend...it was cute...
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Old 03-28-2008, 09:53 PM   #826 (permalink)
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Old 03-31-2008, 12:33 PM   #827 (permalink)
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oh well, who wasn't a racist back then

but that's beside the point, i think what makes lovecraft's stories
so difficult to translate onto the screen is because he tries to conjur
up images completely detached from reality and everyday experience
and doing that visually is a quite difficult task.
i think the only one i've seen is Dagon and it was a mess.
I agree, as long as his works aren't hate literature or propaganda for his beliefs, the guy was a great horror writer and is seen as such. Would you all disparage Hunter S. Thompson for being a drug user?

Sure it certainly isn't exactly something you would want in a role model but all of that aside he was a fantastic writer who crafted worlds that people love to be in so much that fans created their own studies of his mythology.

And on his poem that Crowquill quoted, sure he wrote that but how many times did Mark Twain use that word throughout the books and stories he wrote, remember the "N bomb" was a commonly used word to describe black people up until the middle twentieth century.
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Old 03-31-2008, 12:42 PM   #828 (permalink)
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Watched Dan In Real Life last night was quite funny...
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Old 03-31-2008, 12:50 PM   #829 (permalink)
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Lol. I actually though Ethan was kidding...wow. And check this out:

In "Herbert West - Reanimator," Lovecraft gives an account of a just-deceased African-American male. He asserts:
“ He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms that I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon. The body must have looked even worse in life - but the world holds many ugly things.

Anyhoooo...



9/10
He sure did make some fantastic stuff in the 70's.
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Old 03-31-2008, 01:31 PM   #830 (permalink)
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The Conversation is a stunning film. you really need to watch it with surround sound though. The sound design is integral to the film.I love the last shot with the camera mimicking a CCTV camera.
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