Literature mentioned in TV or cinema.....food for thought

well, as you all know, I caption TV shows......

this is in literature because Neighbours keeps mentioning classic and not so classic books

today it was Atonement by Ian McEwan - Summer was seeing all kinds of parallels to her life as she had to write an essay on the book

recently - they juxtaposed Summer (the intelligent depressing cow) with Tash (the conniving stupid bitch) by the books they were reading

just before the fire......that burnt down Summer's house.....heheheheh

Andrew Robinson (Paul's son) was in the bedroom the two twits were sharing

he noticed that Tash was reading Jane Eyre - typical he thought

then he saw what Summer was reading - The Sociopath Next Door.....and he expressed satisfaction that Summer was so clever and 'out there'

it's funny how they use book titles/themes as shorthand for people's sorry problems and characters in this awful show

what next? Paul Robinson mentioning Machiavelli......heheheheehe

but rather than just have a thread about Neighbours

I thought people could post other tales of TV shows/characters discussing/mentioning works of literature.......

it's very common I think......

I bet Eddie could name one or two

I expect Pinz or someone will probably start a thread trying to compete with me - along the lines of cinema/TV in Literature.....hehehe

art devours itself eventually......

and my plate seems a bit bare........

Montgomery Clift in 'From Here To Eternity' was ragged by the other guys in his barrack room for reading 'that dirty book' Ulysses.

really? that's great.....it is a bit of a dirty book.....as far as I've heard.....toilet stuff, stinky knickers (Hosni mentioned that)

thanks Felix

where does cinema stop and literature stop and art stop and TV too (God help me - I don't watch it)

one of my favourite movies (I've read the book too) - The English Patient

has Ralph Fiennes carrying round an old worn copy of Heroditus.....(his vade mecum....that's my show-off phrase)

the Sikh in teh movie also engages with teh patient when he reads Kipling......as Fiennes instructs him on punctuation (wrongly as it happens)

and the Sikh guy mockingly reads the slaughter by the British imperialists......pausing for effect

it seemed so romantic.....when romance itself was romantic

now romance is not quite so romantic as it used to be........

good post Andy - facts of which I was hitherto ignorant

without seeming to go from the sublime to the ridiculous

recently on Teh Bold and Teh Beautiful

Taylor (the 'cougar') was discussing the Oedipus complex......

might seem a bit high-brow for Bold - but, no, Bold is not just about fascist fashion and who's sleeping with whom....it's about art, culture, philosophy........

fashion.......

and more fashion

ANDY wrote:Marlon Brando does an interesting reading of T.S. Eliot's The hollow men in a deleted scene from Apocalyps now - a delivery which is sadly ruined in part by an all too present musical score, it would have been better if it was just Marlon reading.
I believe you can find the clip on YouTube - or I will look it up later.

There are more T.S. Eliot-quotes in Apocalyps now, of course: 'I should have been a pair of ragged claws scutteling across the floors of silent seas' - what a line! -, ...

I bet Father Ted has referenced T S Eliot, Dylan Thomas or Yeats......heheheh......

Eddie will know for sure.......

I really hope the show has referenced a great work of literature.......

after all, Homer Simpson does it all the time......

my memory is not robust enough to quote some or many or any literary/cinematic crossovers......

I'm only hoping you lot can come up with the goods.........

Catherine wrote:I bet Father Ted has referenced T S Eliot, Dylan Thomas or Yeats......heheheh......

Eddie will know for sure.......

I really hope the show has referenced a great work of literature

The episode in which Father Jack (apparently) dies after overdosing on Toilet Duck- is it "New Jack City"?- sees Ted and Dougal conducting an all-night vigil over his 'corpse', in the course of which Ted recites the final paragraph of James Joyce's short story from Dubliners, "The Dead".

I knew I could rely on you, Eddie.........

completely over my head, Pinz.......

a good contribution (as though I have half an idea what you're on about )

never really liked Woody (what an unfortunate name)

after I heard about his predilection for young girls......(namely his daughter )

but thank you

I can see there's a lot of life left in these old bones

I mean this young thread......

Always liked the cinema queue scene in Annie Hall in which Woody Allen confounds the loudmouth pontificating about "The Global Village" by producing Marshall McLuhan in person to tell the bore that he's talking drivel.

Punchline: "Don't you wish real life was like this?"

that was a good moment.......(from the vast deposits of my hazy memory)

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pinhedz wrote:

Catherine wrote:...after I heard about his predilection for young girls......(namely his daughter )

Soon-Yi Previn--adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Andre Previn. She was no kin to Woodrow and was full-grown (22) at the time. She married Woodrow in 1997.

Pinz, the suit was brought against Woody for alleged abuse of his daughter, Dylan, who was about 10 at the time.

Last night on Neighbours "Pride And Prejudice" was mentioned.
Later in the Simpsons Marge was reading "Eat Pray Love".

In To Live, the Chinese movie I saw yesterday, during the part of the movie that deals with the 1960s, there's a scene where everyong is toting Mao's Little Red Book. Not that that qualifies as literature.

Constance wrote:In To Live, the Chinese movie I saw yesterday, during the part of the movie that deals with the 1960s, there's a scene where everyong is toting Mao's Little Red Book. Not that that qualifies as literature.

I bought it in 1968 and never read it !

Last night in Neighbours Summer was trying to write an essay on Atonement

if you'd read the original post of the thread - you would have realised that I captioned that show in advance and mentioned the reference to Atonement

no worries.....

today in Days of Our Lives.....hehehehe

Justin commented on Hope's melancholy pose

saying she looked like she could be in Edward Hopper's diner.....hehehehe

and in Tron which Torin watched again last weekend, the android is sharing her wonder at the 'real' books that Jeff Bridges has in his digs.....

Jeff's son looks at the authors' names - Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky......

the android.....hehehe....says that Jeff Bridges is going all buddhist and teaching her to lose her ego........but she ain't fallin' for that bullshit......and asks the guy if he knows Jules Vernes......

he says 'sure'

she gets a bit confused and says - what's he like?

Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' was about the burning of books (the temperature at which paper burns apparently). The book burners were the fire brigade of this ugly future world. I can't recall which books featured in the film of the book, but obviously a number of well known tomes were incinerated.



EDIT: IMdB comes to the rescue:

Among the books burned by the firemen is the film journal "Cahiers du Cinema" for which director Francois Truffaut wrote. Pictured on the cover is a picture from À bout de souffle (1960), written by Truffaut. Also among the books burned is "The Martian Chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451" itself, both written by Ray Bradbury

nice one, Felix

which prompts my memory of Equilibrium - the movie - which has a future where all literature and art have been banned and a couple of resistance fighters - like teh gorgeous Christian Bale......but mostly Sean Bean have hidden away works of art for posterity.......

also mentioned in the apocalyptic crap fest - 2012 - works of art that are to be preserved for the post apocalyptic (after the flood) world......

Catherine wrote:if you'd read the original post of the thread - you would have realised that I captioned that show in advance and mentioned the reference to Atonement

I did , but this was a different episode.
In last night's episode some one was reading SAS A survival Guide