The Best of Merged Books and Movies
Second Runner-Up:
"Machiavelli's The
Little Prince" - Antoine de
Saint-Exupery's classic
children's tale as presented by Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is
embodied
in many delightful and intriguing characters, all of whom are executed.
(Erik Anderson,
First Runner-Up:
"Green
Eggs and Hamlet" - Would you
kill him in his bed? Thrust a
dagger
through
his head? I would not, could not, kill
the King. I could not do
that
evil thing. I would not wed this girl,
you see. Now get her to a nunnery.
(Robin
Parry,
And the Winner of the Dancing Critter:
"Fahrenheit 451 of the
Vanities" - An
'80s yuppie is denied books. He
does
not object, or even notice. (Mike Long,
Burke)
Honorable Mentions:
"Where's Walden?"- Alas, the challenge of locating Henry David Thoreau
in
each
richly-detailed drawing loses its appeal when it quickly becomes clear that he is always in the woods.
(Sandra
Hull,
"Catch-22 in the
probably
flunk out of prep school, but if you're flunking out of prep
school,
you're probably not insane.
(Brendan
Beary, Great Mills)
"2001: A Space Iliad"- The Hal 9000 computer wages an insane 10-year war
against the Greeks after falling victim to the Y2K bug.
(Joseph
Romm, Washington)
"Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi"- Thor Heyerdahl
recounts his attempt to prove
Rudyard Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came
to
"The Maltese Faulkner" - Is the
black bird a tortured symbol of Sam's
>struggles with race and family? Does it signify his decay of soul along
>with the soul of the Old South? Is it merely a crow, mocking his attempts
>to understand? Or is it worth a cool mil? (Thad Humphries, Warrenton)
"Jane Eyre Jordan" - Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships to
lead
the
Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship.
(Dave
Pickering, Bowie)
"Looking for Mr. Godot"- A
young woman waits for Mr. Right to enter her
life.
She has a loooong wait.
(Jonathan
Paul, Garrett Park)
"The Scarlet Pimpernel
Letter" - An 18th-century
English nobleman leads a
double
life, freeing comely young adulteresses from the prisons of
post-Revolution
"Lorna Dune" - An English farmer, Paul Atreides,
falls for the daughter of
a
notorious rival clan, the Harkonnens, and pursues a
career as a giant
worm
jockey in order to impress her.
"The Remains of the Day of the
Jackal" - A formal English
butler puts his
loyalty
to his employer above all else, until he is persuaded to join a
plot to
assassinate Charles deGaulle.
"The Invisible Man of
elixir
which renders him invisible. He proceeds to go on a mad rampage of
corruption and terror, attacking innocent people in the streets and all
the
while singing "To fight the Invisible Man!" until he is finally
stopped
by a windmill.
"Singing in the Black Rain"- A gang of vicious Japanese druglords
beat the
shit
out of Gene Kelly.
"Fiddlemarch"
- Emotionally dessicated medievalist Dr. Casaubon is
transformed when everyone in the town reveals that they are jewish
and
start
to dance and sing a lot.
"Of Three Blind Mice and Men" - Burgess Meredith has his limbs hacked off
by a
psychopathic farmer's wife. Did you ever
see such a sight in your
life?
"Planet of the Grapes of
Wrath" - Astronaut lands on
mysterious planet,
only to
discover that it is his very own home planet of Earth, which has
been
taken over by the Joads, a race of dirt-poor corn
farmers who
miraculously developed rudimentary technology and evolved the ability to
speak
after exposure to nuclear radiation.
"
eternity
in a flying saucer with a goofy robot, an evil scientist, and 2
annoying
children.
"The Exorstentialist" - Camus psychological
thriller about a priest who
casts
out a demon by convincing it that there's really no purpose to what
it's
doing.