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Bitching Sparked By Bad Movie
Mar. 20th, 2006 01:20 pmOk, people. On Die Wolke. I hate to break it to you people, and I hate to sound like the book-whore that I am, but that book isn't really the most recent. It plays at a time when there was still a GDR border with armed posts, and when apartheid was in full swing down in South Africa. Both, by the way, are mentioned in the book and kind of vital to the point of the book. It plays at a time when reactor safety was only just born. It plays at the time when everybody knew everything about Tchernobyl and TMI except for some tiny but important factors, apparently. Today? TMI means 'too much information'. (Consider this, as Zeami would say, consider this well.)
It also plays at a time when terrorists weren't capable of trying to or succeeding to destroy, say, the World Trade Center. It plays at a time when there were, apparently, no hurricanes capable of leaving about as much destruction as the nuclear catastrophe in the above-mentioned book. It does play at a time when there was such a thing as a Cold War, but that's the matter of another book.
At any rate, making it a movie now rather than, you know, in the late 80s, is rather pointless. Oh, not pointless, of couse, seeing how everybody wants to phase out of nuclear energy today. But, you know. Making it a movie? And turning it into a fucking love story just to get the plot along, because there can't be any shocking encounters with GDR soldiers or heated arguments about leaving for South Africa anymore, just so people today will even watch it without going "Well, yeah, that's how things were 20 years ago..."?
It's like they sat in the studio, "So what is that book about?" - "Well, there's a nuclear catastrophe..." - "Oh yay, that sells! And then?" - "A long and tedious run through pretty much the whole of Germany-as-it-was-in-1987 with lots and lots and lots and lots of discussions and arguments and dealing with denial." - "THAT doesn't sell. Let's make it a love story. Context? Who needs context?" - Oh for Eru's sake. Sorry, but baaaaah.
*waits for being pelted withgenetically modified tomatoes by Greenpeace*
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( Lyra kotzt sich aus )
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It also plays at a time when terrorists weren't capable of trying to or succeeding to destroy, say, the World Trade Center. It plays at a time when there were, apparently, no hurricanes capable of leaving about as much destruction as the nuclear catastrophe in the above-mentioned book. It does play at a time when there was such a thing as a Cold War, but that's the matter of another book.
At any rate, making it a movie now rather than, you know, in the late 80s, is rather pointless. Oh, not pointless, of couse, seeing how everybody wants to phase out of nuclear energy today. But, you know. Making it a movie? And turning it into a fucking love story just to get the plot along, because there can't be any shocking encounters with GDR soldiers or heated arguments about leaving for South Africa anymore, just so people today will even watch it without going "Well, yeah, that's how things were 20 years ago..."?
It's like they sat in the studio, "So what is that book about?" - "Well, there's a nuclear catastrophe..." - "Oh yay, that sells! And then?" - "A long and tedious run through pretty much the whole of Germany-as-it-was-in-1987 with lots and lots and lots and lots of discussions and arguments and dealing with denial." - "THAT doesn't sell. Let's make it a love story. Context? Who needs context?" - Oh for Eru's sake. Sorry, but baaaaah.
*waits for being pelted with
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( Lyra kotzt sich aus )
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