Word: fictionalizes
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...MATRIX TRILOGY. The movies' premise that the world we know is neither good nor real but the creation of a malign power echoes early texts that are now known as Gnostic. Similar themes mark the work of science-fiction patriarch Philip K. Dick, whose stories have been turned into movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report and John Woo's Paycheck, opening on Christmas...
Like the first volume, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (DC Comics; 224 pages), is set in England in the 1890s and features an all-star supergroup culled from the pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate...
...Twenty years later, just before his death in 1968, Woolrich remembered one thing about ?Rear Window,? the most famous movie made from his fiction (which his agent had sold to Hollywood, along with five other stories, for a measly $5,000). ?Hitchcock wouldn?t even send me a ticket to the premiere in New York,? the writer told his young agent, Barry Malzberg. ?He knew where I lived. He wouldn?t even send me a ticket...
...fact is that Woolrich?s rep rests largely on the movies, good or bad, made from his fiction. Here, then is a festival of Woolrich films spanning seven decades and five countries. Most of the movies are available for purchase online, or can be rented from netflix.com. I found all but two in three Manhattan video stores (World of Video, Kim?s and, for the Indian film, Naghma House). A Woolrich starter set would comprise ?Phantom Lady,? ?The Window,? ?No Man of Her Own,? ?Rear Window,? ?The Bride Wore Black,? ?Kati Patang,? ?Martha? and ?Original...
...would imagine so. For very educated people, there's still a little whiff of disapproval of fiction. If I say I'm staying home and reading a biography of William Randolph Hearst, you would think I was one kind of person. If I said I was staying home reading Heartburn by Nora Ephron, you would think I was another kind of person. I think that's where the chick-lit moniker comes from, which I find a bit offensive...