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William S Burroughs - The Junky's Christmas Full Version. (Original Post)
OnyxCollie
Dec 2014
OP
You mean the book, or that train wreck of a movie that had the same name?
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2014
#2
It was a cross between Naked Lunch and the Burroughs biography, Literary Outlaw.
OnyxCollie
Dec 2014
#3
I actually thought Fear And Loathing was a valiantly straight interpetation of the book, hard as
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2014
#5
olddots
(10,237 posts)1. don't we all think of William on Xmass Eve ?
Gotta find Naked Lunch and stream it .
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. You mean the book, or that train wreck of a movie that had the same name?
I dont know what they were making, but it wasnt that book. Not that you could actually make that book into a movie, ever.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)3. It was a cross between Naked Lunch and the Burroughs biography, Literary Outlaw.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)4. I give them props for trying.
But it really made no sense trying to film it.
I feel the same way about FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. I actually thought Fear And Loathing was a valiantly straight interpetation of the book, hard as
that would be to do.
I mean, tough to get the lizards and shit right, but all in all it was pretty close to the actual text.
But then I love Terry Gilliam. His 'failures' are 100 times better than most peoples' successes. Far and away one of my favorite directors of all time.