Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

Ooooh, let me know what you think of the book after you re-read it; I loved the movie so much, I have a hankering to check out the novel.


Oh, and Daniel Craig was also good in Infamous ... and I would have never noticed him as the same actor in Munich if I hadn't been so hung up on him as Bond. Interesting choices, indeed. But those days may now be over, and he may be stuck with James Bond typecasting for the rest of his career.

I hope not.

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Ooooh, let me know what you think of the book after you re-read it; I loved the movie so much, I have a hankering to check out the novel.

Ok I've finished the book. It's very different from the movie. The basic premise that no children are being born and Theo comes in conctact with a pregnant woman is about all they have in common.

And besides the characters being named Theo, Julian etc that's about it there as well.

That said I very much enjoyed it. Especially as it was so radically different it was easy to not compare it to the movie. Without giving too much away the book is much less 1984ish than the movie. With no younger generation and the population decreasing things are just kind of decaying. Hope is gone. PD James is one of my favorite writers anyway and the book has a bit of her usual mystery.

I'm happy to pass the book along to anyone who wants to read it.