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Thursday, December 22, 2005
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We have precedent! We have established precedent! There's no getting out of it this time! No two ways to go about it! You can't have your sock and wear it too! It's official!
In the ever-burgeoning movement of "reimagining" classic stories by modernizing them and replacing all the characters with black people, one trend has taken effect. It's called Initialism. How does one perform Initialism? Simple, take the title of a piece of literature, then replace that title with a single letter. Let's take a look at some examples, and yes! this is just in, we now have two examples!
Let's look at the play "Othello." There it is in its seven-letter glory. Why 7 letters? I don't know. I guess it's lucky. But everyone knows that where 7 letters will do, one will do just as well. You know a word I really hate? Thello. Let's get rid of that Thello. And there you have the title of the Mikhai Pfeiffer "Othello" adaptation.
Now, let's look at another piece of great literature, The Great Gatsby. 14 letters! Seem strange that the next item in the sequence has an additional 7 letters? I don't think so! Anyhow, take The Great Gatsby. Lovely story about a guy named Jay Gatsby. A parable, if you will, about the old rich and the new rich, and how they are both miserable. Okay, so The Great Gatsby. Very descriptive, indicative of the book's themes of reputation and class. Maybe... a little too descriptive. What kind of letters we looking at here? I see a few Ts, a couple E's and A's, but so what? The letter of choice here, is clearly "G." And there we have the title of the upcoming rap-themed Great Gatsby adaptation "G". Turns out it's about a guy named "G. Summers." Now, they could have easily named him Jay Gatsby and called the movie "J." But that wouldn't fly. Not at all. "G" is much more in keeping with the message of the book.
Bottom line, many black people are not illiterate, and they may even watch your picture show if the title contains entire words. Remember "Barbershop"? Whole buncha people saw "Barbershop"!
But I'm not worried. I think this trend will die down when they try to adapt the Thomas Pynchon novel V and end up with a movie titled I.
Nicky
MY E-MAIL! Okayeahwhatever@yahoo.com.
AIM: Jake Aimer
In the ever-burgeoning movement of "reimagining" classic stories by modernizing them and replacing all the characters with black people, one trend has taken effect. It's called Initialism. How does one perform Initialism? Simple, take the title of a piece of literature, then replace that title with a single letter. Let's take a look at some examples, and yes! this is just in, we now have two examples!
Let's look at the play "Othello." There it is in its seven-letter glory. Why 7 letters? I don't know. I guess it's lucky. But everyone knows that where 7 letters will do, one will do just as well. You know a word I really hate? Thello. Let's get rid of that Thello. And there you have the title of the Mikhai Pfeiffer "Othello" adaptation.
Now, let's look at another piece of great literature, The Great Gatsby. 14 letters! Seem strange that the next item in the sequence has an additional 7 letters? I don't think so! Anyhow, take The Great Gatsby. Lovely story about a guy named Jay Gatsby. A parable, if you will, about the old rich and the new rich, and how they are both miserable. Okay, so The Great Gatsby. Very descriptive, indicative of the book's themes of reputation and class. Maybe... a little too descriptive. What kind of letters we looking at here? I see a few Ts, a couple E's and A's, but so what? The letter of choice here, is clearly "G." And there we have the title of the upcoming rap-themed Great Gatsby adaptation "G". Turns out it's about a guy named "G. Summers." Now, they could have easily named him Jay Gatsby and called the movie "J." But that wouldn't fly. Not at all. "G" is much more in keeping with the message of the book.
Bottom line, many black people are not illiterate, and they may even watch your picture show if the title contains entire words. Remember "Barbershop"? Whole buncha people saw "Barbershop"!
But I'm not worried. I think this trend will die down when they try to adapt the Thomas Pynchon novel V and end up with a movie titled I.
Nicky
MY E-MAIL! Okayeahwhatever@yahoo.com.
AIM: Jake Aimer
1 Comments:
some of your best work in a long time, my friend...keep it up, old sport...
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