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Any ideas for cinematic ourobori? Erasing.com tracks down two this year: Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Transformers.
I would include Alfonso Cuaron's Great Expectations—based on Dickens, but then the basis of a separate novelization (I am pretty sure? Perhaps just a condensation. I will investigate.)
While we're talking about the ouroboros—can someone name:
1) A Florida writer's novel with an ouroboric cover (and ouro-influenced title)?
2) A mega-novel which has the ouroboros for a frontispiece?
3) The thing about New York that Luc Sante compares to the ouroboros?
4) The fairly recent movie where Nicolas Cage's character talks about the ouroboros?
5) A brand of car that sounds like ouroboros backward, sorta?
6) The author of a novel from the '80s, entitled The Ouroboros?
7) The near-spelling of ouroboros in The Blood in The Red White and Blue?
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Labels: Ouroboros
posted by Ed Park @ 10:39 PM
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No. 2 is of course William Gaddis's The Recognitions.
Yes! I actually don't know the answer to #6 (I glimpsed it on a shelf in the stacks).
Speaking of Gaddis, #7 is from a different book by him...
#4 = Adaptation
#5 is Subaru, which I think must be so obvious that nobody else bothered to answer!
#6, except Googling shows that it was published in 1991, is a novel I read at the time it came out but had forgotten the author's name, so this is cheating; but it's by Howard Coale, and the reason I likely read it is that his mother was a longtime English teacher at the school I went to in Philadelphia, where my mother also teaches!
Also, FOX's Millennium.
Shrek went from the Steig picture book to movie(s) to novelization(s), too.
And, if in a different sort of way, The Hoax. As Rosenbaum writes:
"The movie is basically fiction," Irving wrote of the script on his Web site. "You could call it a hoax about a hoax." For starters, Irving has been transformed from a bohemian expatriate novelist living in Ibiza -- also the home of art forger Elmyr de Hory, the subject of Irving's 1969 nonfiction book, Fake! -- into a middle-class bore living in upstate New York, played by an actor (Richard Gere) with little of Irving's charisma....
Great Expectations the movie definitely was novelized later. I know because at the time I was working in a bookstore called Great Expectations, and a sales rep gave the book to us as a joke.
If the answer to #3 isn't the subway, it should be.
Unless it's the outerboros...
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