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| Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 | 12:32 pm
[talazia]
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FYI -- from cracked.com
AUGUST 14, 2007 The 10 Most Awesome Movies Hollywood Ever Killed (cracked.com) by David Wong #1. Will Ferrell's A Confederacy of Dunces Probably no single project in Hollywood history has been attempted as many times, by as many people, as A Confederacy of Dunces. For 26 years, directors, actors, producers, writers and studios have come and gone. So why, in a Hollywood where thousands of quickly-forgotten projects wash in and out like the tide, do they keep coming back to Dunces? It's because the book, by John Kennedy Toole, is the funniest thing ever written. Don't try to argue. Scientists have proven it (they have a computer or something). The novel is one big, intricate clockwork of a joke, plot threads converging in ways so ridiculous it's almost impossible to grasp it all with one reading. You don't think of them awarding Pulitzer prizes to balls-to-the-wall comedies, but they gave one to Dunces. Will Ferrell was all set to star in this one as recently as a year ago, with Lily Tomlin and Drew Barrymore and Mos Def (fans of the book will have an easy time guessing who plays which character). But, once again, the studio pulled the plug. Why it didn't get made: Will Ferrell has said it's the movie everyone in Hollywood wants to make, but no one wants to finance. They're right to have doubts. Anyone who saw the Hitchhiker's movie knows how hard it is to translate a funny novel to the big screen. Too much of the comedy lies in the language, in pages of narration that won't be in the film. Whenever it's time to write the checks for Dunces, somebody always gets cold feet. This film will always be the weird girl at the book store, the enigmatic one who listens only to bands you've never heard of and who just rolls her eyes when you try to make a joke. Hollywood doesn't need that girl, not with a line of slutty cheerleaders right behind her. And while we're on the subject: Did we mention the project is cursed? John Belushi was set to star in the film in 1982, but just days before he was to meet with producers, he died. Then John Candy was on board, before his death in 1994. Then Chris Farley, before he died in 1997. Then, all plans to film in New Orleans were halted after the city was devastated by hurricane Katrina. Don't get us wrong, we want to see Dunces on the big screen. But there is a significant chance that, upon release, the sky itself will burn with unholy fire and the rivers will flow red with the blood of the innocent. ------------------------ well said, I say :) | | Monday, February 6th, 2006 | 11:43 pm
[toddpage]
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Ignatius is back.
It's been far too long since anything has been put into this group. so I shall empart these words for thought and debate: My professor last year swore to the idea that Ignatius Reilly and Don Quixote were extremely similar. I can see many similarities, however I also see more than enough discrepancies to deny any relevancy. However, upon musing over Dostoyevsky's the Underground - I noted dozens of comparisons. Does anyone else believe the underground man could be an influence for Ignatius? Do any of you agree with the prof on the Don Quixote reference? If you've read neither/ don't find relevancy in either- are the any other characters/ novels you think may have been a sort of inspiration? Go to it! Current Music: There is life outside your apartment - Avenue Q | | Monday, October 10th, 2005 | 12:09 pm
[scbenji]
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Question-- Confederacy on audio
Whenever I'm in a bookstore, I casually look at the audiobook section to see if they have enough good taste to carry Confederacy in audiobook format. Last night, after a couple years of casually looking, I have apparently found the holy grail of theology and geometry, because a Borders near my home had two copies of it! I put $35 down on the table for it, and I left for my car a happy man. I put the first CD in and my drive home was rather disappointing. Barrett Whitener is horrible. ALL of his characters sound like gay men, except for Dorian. Jones, I can't even describe what he sounds like, but I'm sure Toole would be rolling over in his grave. I swear I listened to a portion of an audio version of Confederacy on Audible--which is no longer available there--that was read by an incredibly dynamic African-American man. Does anybody know where I can get that version? Do any of you have it? And if so, do you like it? | | Sunday, September 11th, 2005 | 7:29 pm
[mysticknyght]
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| | Tuesday, April 19th, 2005 | 12:47 pm
[scbenji]
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Does anybody know where the audiobook of Confederacy can be purchased online (for download, preferably)? I know Audible used to have it, but it doesn't appear to be in their catalog any more. --- "Don't you want to pack anything?" "Oh, of couse. There are all of my notes and jottings. We must never let them fall into the hands of my mother. She may make a fortune from them. It would be too ironic." *turns to copyright page* Ironic, indeed. | | Monday, April 4th, 2005 | 8:43 pm
[librarygurl]
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| | Thursday, December 30th, 2004 | 2:15 pm
[_solinvictus_]
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Such an unmitigated affront to Good Taste and Decency!!
Seriously, I started reading this book back in September at a local
Barnes and Noble. I'd heard much about the work as something of a cult
fixation, but I'd never read it myself. Well, much like Walker Percy in
his worthy introduction; I read with growing interest to the point that
I could not put it down and kept on reading until finished. I
immediately pondered the work upon completion and, in my estimation,
found it to be the funniest book ever written.
Ignatius J. Reilly is the essential anachronism who,
correspondingly, has a somewhat hypocritical addiction to aspects of
his version of contemporary modern life. While viewing himself as the
cloistered aesthete, Ignatius indulges in the very "vices" that are the
subject of his vitriol. Ignatius is thoroughly absorbed in pop culture
to the point of watching television programs and movies at all spare
moments. As he laments the "technicolor abortions" shown at the
Prytania cinema, he actively avoids cutting edge Swedish drama
(assuming Ingmar Bergmann here?). Additionally, while proselytizing
like a modern Evangelist upon the horrors of frozen and canned foods,
Ignatius gluts himself on such "delicacies" as Dr. Nut, snack cakes,
frozen pizzas, and, say it with me, canned food. When Fortuna sends him
to Paradise Vendors, Ignatius can barely make a profit due to his
prodigious consumption of hot dogs and, using George the delinquent, he
abandons the cart to sate his unending appetite for cheap movies. The
comedy, in my view, is Ignatius' own hypocrisy in dealing with the
world. Current Mood:  happyCurrent Music: "John Barleycorn Must Die" by Traffic | | Saturday, December 25th, 2004 | 8:22 pm
[jennmiferz]
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"What you mumbling about in there, boy? His mother asked through the closed door." "I am praying, Ignatius answered angrily." " I think it's wonderful you praying, babe. I been wondering what you do locked up in there all the time." "Please go away!" Ignatus screamed. "You're shattering my religous ecsatacy." Bouncing up and down on his side vigorously, Ignatius sensed a belch rising in this throat, but when he expectantly opened his mouth he emitted only a small burp. Still, the bounching had some physiological effect. Ignatius touched the small erection that was pointing downwatd into the sheet, held it, and lay still trying to decide what to do with it. In this position, with the red flannel nightshirt around his chest and his massive stomach sagging into the mattress, he thought somewhat sadly that after eighteen years with his hobby it had become merely a mechanical physical act stripped of the flights of fancy and invention that he had once been able to bring to it. At one time he had almost developed it into an art form, practicing the hobby with the skill and fervor of an artist and philosopher, a scholoar and gentleman. There were still hidden in his room several accessories which he had once used: A rubber glove, a piece of fabric from a silk umbrella, a jar of Noxzema. Putting them away again after it was all over had eventually grown too depressing. Ignatius manipulated and concentrated. At last a vision appeared, the familiar figure of the large and devoted collie that had been his pet when he was in high school. "woof!" Ignatius almost heard Rex say once again. "Woof! Woof! Arf!" Rex looded so lifelike. ONe ear drooped. He panted. THe apparition jumped over a fence and chased a stick that somehow landed in the middle of Ignatius' quilt. As the tan and white figure grew closer, Ignatius' eyes dilated, crossed, and closed, and he lay wanly back among his four pillows hoping that he has some Kleenex in his room. Hello there everyone. I have been reading this book, and it seriously rocks. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm close. Above, is probably my favorite excerpt from the book. Well I hope this is an active community, cause I intend to be a frequent visitor. So long for now. -Jennifer- | | Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 | 7:55 pm
[toddpage]
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Will Ferrel should never ever play Ignatius, that would be a crime. I cant really picture an opera or any stage production really working with this book, mainly because of the amount of scene changes. Also- the bird, and many other ideas would not work on a stage, unless it was a very contemporary set, with very little actual decoration. -Here's a little thing I noticed about ACOD that I'm writing a paper on- the similarities between it and Catcher in the Rye. Gotta go- I'[m late for my job selling hot dogs. | | Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 | 5:33 pm
[iwanabspaghetti]
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sirs, Having just finised a confederacy of dunces and having discovered this community, I have a thought to pose to all of you out there with the proper appreciation for theology and geometry. if there were a composer out there with the talent to do it, would not Dunces make a simply amazing comic opera in the vein of Falstaff or Don Pasquale? Current Mood:  contemplative | | Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 | 7:31 pm
[evilxeye]
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I have a question... I picked this book to read for my English class...and now I have to write an essay about how style and characters reinforce the theme... i've never been good at finding themes, so my question is: what exactly is the theme of this book?? thanks | | Sunday, August 22nd, 2004 | 1:52 pm
[highway61poet]
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| | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 | 3:22 pm
[highway61poet]
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As a denizen of the Sodom and Gomorrah that festers near the mouth of Old Man River (henceforth referred to as "New Orleans"), I must report that there is a hideous statue of Mr. Ignatius J. Reilly on Canal Street under the old D.H. Holmes building. How the city council ever approved this cultural obscenity is beyond my comprehension! They are clearly retarded. Of course, I expect nothing less from the graft-infested mire that is the Crescent City. I'm sure someone's cousin made a hefty sum from this bronze abortion. My valve contracts in horror when I imagine the type of offals, tarts, and morons who rub against this vile creation in order to take their tacky tourist photographs. I have included a picture of the hideous thing so that you may marvel at the utter lack of theology and geometry. I caution you to shield the eyes of any children or small animals that may be in the room, for fear of driving them into horrified, hysterical outbursts at the sight of this abomination.  Social Note: The Minkoff minx must hear of this. Health note: My valve has been quite active lately as a result of those Paradise delicacies. Disgustedly, Lance, Your Besieged Working Boy Current Mood: amused | | Friday, May 21st, 2004 | 2:14 pm
[skysnotsoempty]
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newbie
though the idea of will ferrell as ignatius does seem a bit wrong, mos def as jones [see my comment on entry below for more info] is right on. *edit* i definitely believe that the role of ignatius should be played by someone more like this guy:  [david schramm from that gosh-awful 90's show "Wings"] | 11:14 am
[talazia]
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| | Saturday, January 3rd, 2004 | 1:58 am
[alisa77]
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FYI
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/boethius/boebio.htmlLife of Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born in or near Rome around the year 480 A.D. Orphaned young, he was brought up in the household of one of the richest and most venerable aristocrats of the time, Symmachus. He married Symmachus's daughter and pursued a typical career for a senatorial scion of the time, alternating between ceremonial public office and private leisure. In two ways, however, Boethius was unique. He was far and away the best educated Roman of his age: indeed, there had been no one like him for a century, and there would never be another (the senate, long since ceremoniously inane, disappeared forever by the end of the sixth century). He had a command of the Greek language adequate to make him a student, translator, and commentator of the Platonic philosophies of his age (to which we give the name Neoplatonism, to distinguish their opinions from the original doctrines of Plato himself). Boethius may in fact have studied in the Greek east, perhaps at Athens, perhaps at Alexandria, but we cannot be sure. At any rate, he undertook an ambitious project of translating and interpreting all the works of both Plato and Aristotle and then -- he opined -- demonstrating the essential agreement of the two. Only a few pieces of this large undertaking were completed before Boethius's life was cut short. For the other unique facet of Boethius's character was that he took public affairs so seriously that he lost his life at the hands of an authoritarian monarch: such complete devotion to the public weal had long since faded from aristocratic fashion. Little is to be made of his term as consul in 510, or of his doting presence at the consular celebrations of 522 when his two sons held the office simultaneously. But in the early 520's, he served as magister officiorum in the half-Roman regime of the Ostrogothic king Theoderic. Theoderic had taken Italy at the behest of the emperors in Constantinople; but political and theological fashions had changed in the thirty years since Theoderic entered Italy. In the reign of the emperor Justin (519-527), the aging Theoderic fell out with Constantinople; somehow, in ways that remain hotly controversial, Boethius came to be suspected by his monarch of disloyal sympathies; the suspicion may indeed have been well-placed, but the sympathies may have been well-grounded. Sometime c. 525/26 Boethius was executed. His father-in-law Symmachus went to the block not long after. When Theoderic died in August 526, legend quickly but implausibly had it that he was haunted at the end by his crimes. The Consolation of Philosophy is apparently the fruit of Boethius's spell of imprisonment awaiting trial and execution. Its literary genre, with a regular alternation of prose and verse sections, is called Menippean Satire, after Roman models of which fragments and analogues survive. The dialogue between two characters (one of whom we may call Boethius, but only on condition that we distinguish Boethius the character from Boethius the author, who surely manipulated his self-representation for literary and philosophical effect) is carefully structured according to the best classical models. Its language is classical in intent, but some of the qualities that would characterize medieval Latin are already discernible. ( Read more... ) | | Monday, November 3rd, 2003 | 7:49 am
[orbadviser]
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Will Ferrell
I saw in Entertainment Weekly that Will Ferrell is in talks to star as Ignatius P. Reilly. | | Monday, September 15th, 2003 | 1:14 pm
[butyn]
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| | Saturday, April 26th, 2003 | 12:09 pm
[butyn]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Questioning Philip Seymour Hoffman has Ignatius? Questioning if the movie version of our beloved story will be the biggest piece of crap ever? Check out Philip Seymour Hoffman in the trailer for his new movie...Owning Mahowny. It seems he looks more and more like Ignatius everytime I see him. Current Mood: amazed | | Saturday, February 8th, 2003 | 9:29 am
[butyn]
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Movie Update
Sirs: Here is the recent news of the movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman is signed for the part of Ignatius. Shooting will be starting sometime in the fall of 03. David Gordon Green is directing. |
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