#JohnFowles

2023-04-10

"cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet"
last sentence of "The magus" by #JohnFowles on #isbnmaschine
isbn-maschine.de/978-0-330-299

2023-02-19

"I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to [...]"
first sentence of "The magus" by #JohnFowles on #isbnmaschine
isbn-maschine.de/978-0-330-299

Dustin Kiyeon ChangDustin@universeodon.com
2023-01-31

A young, introverted butterfly collector (Terrence Stamp) in a secluded big house with a separate cellar, moves up his territory when he kidnaps a pretty art school student (Samantha Eggar). After begging and pleading and escape attempts, they sort of agree on their terms - he will let her go after 4 weeks, hoping she will fall in love with him.
With only two principal actors (plus one small character in the middle), this John Fowles adaptation feels more like a play. Young Stamp is intense, playing the role of creepy, shy man with chips on his shoulders. Is it sex that you want from me? Miranda the art student asks him. No. He wants to respect her as a proper woman. There is a big confrontation over Catcher in the Rye. Their class differences are highlighted and the gap between them is obviously too wide. Intriguing psychological drama. #thecollector #williamwyler #terencestamp #samanthaeggar #adaptation #johnfowles

A man showing art collection to a captive woman.A man drugging a woman in front of his butterfly collection.A man sitting on the table with his hands arounfmd his knees in the background. A woman stands facing forward.A woman wrapped in red bath towel and gagged, tied to a post, trying to get to a razor placed on the edge of the bathtub with her foot.
2023-01-21

William Wyler’s The Collector based on John Fowles' novel was subject matter that would need careful handling in 1965.

A kind of horror movie, but very low-key subtle horror with the focus on psychological horror.

A young man collects butterflies but decides that collecting a girl would be even more fun, so he kidnaps one. He decides to keep her.

My review: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

#WilliamWyler #horror #horrormovies #classicmovies #classicmovie #cultmovies #cultmovie #JohnFowles #60smovies

2022-12-05

#Existential angst is navel gazing through a metaphysical microscope.

As you grow, if you grow, you will find your now seemingly profound ramblings are not new nor particularly insightful except to you.

Infants find their own toes to be fascinating for awhile, too.

A list of #authors to pull self-absorbed angry young men out of the Slough of Despond:

#Kafka
#HarukiMurakami
#JohnFowles
#Dostoevsky
#JohnNichols
#JohnIrving
#TomRobbins
#DouglasAdams
#NealStephenson
#WilliamGibson
#JDSalinger

2022-11-25

"Some three months before a Greek film unit had been working on Hydra."
middle sentence of "The magus" by #JohnFowles on #isbnmaschine
isbn-maschine.de/978-0-330-299

2022-11-19

On the Cobb at Lyme Regis on a very wet blustery November day, watch till the end, (I get soaked) No sign of Sarah Woodruff! #JohnFowles #Frenchlieutenantswoman

2022-11-09

"Although my neighbours are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table." #johnfowles

2022-11-07

"And out again, upon the unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea."
last sentence of "The French Lieutenant's woman" by #JohnFowles on #isbnmaschine
isbn-maschine.de/978-0-330-298

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