Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

George Clooney revamps ‘misogynistic’ Catch-22 for TV... [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 24,2019 | Rebecca Davison and Caitlyn Becker

Posted on 04/24/2019 3:38:34 AM PDT by C19fan

George Clooney is adapting Joseph Heller's satirical 1961 novel Catch-22 for a six-part TV show, in which he is giving greater prominence to female roles. According to The Times, the 20th century tale has been criticised for it 'terrible misogyny' and its arguably demeaning depiction of women - the very few female characters are 'objectified and sexualised'. The 57-year-old will produce, star and direct the show and he and co-star Christopher Abbott, 33, grace the cover of Variety to promote the new project.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: feminism
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-27 next last
In other words Clooney committed an act of vandalism against the artists' work.
1 posted on 04/24/2019 3:38:34 AM PDT by C19fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Why?


2 posted on 04/24/2019 3:52:38 AM PDT by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

The Heller estate must be hard up for money.


3 posted on 04/24/2019 3:59:45 AM PDT by Proud_texan (McCarthy was right)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

More won’t see TV.


4 posted on 04/24/2019 4:04:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan
The maid in the lime-green burkha?
5 posted on 04/24/2019 4:35:17 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan
Catch 22 was written as an entertaining humorous look at the author’s experience in the Air Corp in WW II. It is not anti war, it is not “misogynistic;” it is sardonic and realistic. The first movie rendition was ok but as usual, the book was better. This remake has all the earmarks of an abortion in the making.
6 posted on 04/24/2019 4:58:29 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Oh yeah. This will be about as good as every other “woke” TV program and movie. Why don’t they just put a Wymyns Stydies professor on TV for three hours lecturing the audience on how evil the penis is and how all men should be killed?


7 posted on 04/24/2019 5:08:36 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

It is a story about men in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

There will, by necessity, be very few women in the story, because there were very few women at forward operating bases of the Army Air Corps in World War II.

Those women who were there were likely viewed by the young men in the Army Air Corp as young men in the military typically view women. If you want to tell a story, you have to tell the story that happened. If you try to insert 2019 sensibility into a 1943 story, it will not work.

2019 sexual politics is tedious enough. No need to export it to the past. One of the nice things about reading a story from 50 years ago is that you don’t have to wade through all of the modern claptrap. That is why my bookshelf does not have anything published after 1990.


8 posted on 04/24/2019 5:13:50 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Catch-22 meets PC. Epic failure results.


9 posted on 04/24/2019 5:15:18 AM PDT by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

George who?


10 posted on 04/24/2019 5:26:06 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Will Clooney be using a casting couch?


11 posted on 04/24/2019 5:32:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

The book was good, the movie not so much.


12 posted on 04/24/2019 5:34:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy
If you try to insert 2019 sensibility into a 1943 story, it will not work.

Yet MASH ran for centuries and people didn't get sick of it.

Seventies/Eighties attitudinizing in a Fifties story.

I never read the book, but Altman's film was certainly misogynistic.

Alda's TV series was supposed to be feminist and was very touchy-feely in a way that was rare in the 1950s.

13 posted on 04/24/2019 5:44:27 AM PDT by x
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Is the ‘only’ originality these days taking an old classic and modernizing it?

Doesn’t anyone have any ‘new ideas’?

Also with ads anymore, if one company comes up with a ‘STUPID talking animal’, once it is ‘successful’ the others come up with a different talking animal and we end up with the same lame commercial plagiarized several times over with the one ‘robber’ saying - you used a gecko, I used a rabbit and that is different.

It is ‘hard’ to convert most books into movies but ‘Catch 22’ is/was darn near impossible, to many plot changes, character changes etc and far too much to cram into a 2 hour or so movie...


14 posted on 04/24/2019 5:53:21 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Proud_texan

Guess Clooney will turn ‘Natleys Whore’ into Natley being the whore...


15 posted on 04/24/2019 5:56:15 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Catch 22 was one of the best books of the 20th century.

It was also one of the funniest movies IMHO with an incredible cast of characters. Orson Wells, Bob Newhart, Alan Arkin, Buck Henry, Anthony Perkins, Martin Scheen, Norman Fell, Charles Grodin, Paula Prentise and Jon Voight.

Why would you want to do a remake? Of course, they made a remake of True Grit...


16 posted on 04/24/2019 5:59:29 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: xrmusn

Excellent.

Taking it one step further mebbe Clooney will do double parts and play Natley’s whore.


17 posted on 04/24/2019 6:17:43 AM PDT by Proud_texan (McCarthy was right)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

There’s nothing this jerk can put on tv or the screen that I’ll watch. Even his stupid commercial where he runs around in a knight’s costume is reason to change the channel.


18 posted on 04/24/2019 6:27:45 AM PDT by laweeks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: woodbutcher1963

Living in the part of Oklahoma and having ancestors from Arkansas where True Grit took place I always had a problem with the first film. We don’t have snow on our mountains and the timber was wrong. Even though the second was made in Texas it at least looked closer to something like you might find where the story took place. You could take parts of both movies and have a pretty good film.

Film makers have been bowdlerizing and butchering literature from the beginning. I’m still waiting for true telling of Huckleberry Finn.


19 posted on 04/24/2019 6:35:43 AM PDT by Oklahoma
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: xrmusn

I was going to say Nately’s whore will now be a self actualized social justice warrior who fights against American hegemony and oppression.


20 posted on 04/24/2019 6:44:20 AM PDT by freefdny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-27 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson