'The Earth Stood Still' for Keanu Reeves

Zap2It Movie News ^ | 8-28-07 | Bender2

[allmendream]

Well Heinlein is a tough nut to crack (and a bit of a perv)if one takes his writing as a personal statement of belief. But Starship Troopers stands alone as a testament that the old virtues are preserved for a reason and discarded at societies peril.

[Borges]

I waded through ‘Time Enough for Love’ and ‘The Cat...something or other’ decades ago and was blurry eyed afterwards. His late novels are filled with speechifying by what sure seem like an authorial stand ins.

[Bender2]

Re: I assume Bruce Campbell is in the running for Patricia Neal’s role?

That's a part... I could really get my hands on.

My agent says... Keanu really wants me.

And their offer... has a lot of perks!

So, I'll get back to ya... when I make my decision.

Bruce... you'd be perfect in the part!

Ever since Army of Darkness... you've been nothing but a friggin' drama queen!

[Bender2]

Re: I don't remember Billy Gray in Day the Earth Stood Still...

Well, his character Bobby, Pat Neal's son, had one of the best lines: "I like you Mr. Carpenter, you're a real screwball!"

Here's... a pix from the film.

Billy Gray later was in the 1954-60 sitcom "Father Knows Best" and years later on Merv Griffin speaking of his bust for smoking pot, replied. "I call that my 'I fought the law and the law won' years!"

The dude... has a great sense of humor!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Maybe we’ll get to see Keanu Reeves fight the aliens matrix-style. < :D

[LexBaird]

"Time Enough for Love" is the culmination of his "future history" books and short stories. It's kinda hard to get the full impact without the 20 or so stories and novels that precede it, particularly "Methuselah's Children".

"Cat Who Walked Through Walls" was one of his late novels, where he seemed to be trying to consolidate all his favorite characters, somewhat unsuccessfully. The deus ex machina that he uses for this is found in "Number of the Beast", where he postulates that, given an infinite number of universes, those worlds found in books actually exist somewhere, and authors are only tapping into them on some psychic level. Channeling them, as it were. So, when one character invents a machine that travels across dimensions, they start to find places like Barsoom and Oz ... and other Heinlein novels.

[Borges]

From what I understand, the Jack Finney novel on which all the ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ films are based, was itself something of a rip off of Heinlein’s ‘The Puppet Masters’.

[LexBaird]

Could likely be. Have you read that one? There was a movie directly based on it a few years ago.

[Borges]

Nope. But I acquired it years ago in an old triple decker book along with ‘Double Star’ and ‘The Door into Summer’.

[Borges]

the one rule is that authorial intent and reality has no meaning, man

I don't know why you frame this in Hippie argot seeing how 'Authorial Intent' was rejected as an interpretive criteria by the Southern Agrarian critics in the early 20th century and they were Christian Conservatives. A lot of times texts mean the exact opposite of what the author intended. If you think that Shakespeare intended the approximately 10,546 different interpretations of Hamlet...

[A_perfect_lady]

To be overrated you have to be rated to begin with. Who rates him highly?

I do. He makes me tingle. I don't care if he's a complete moron. I just hit the mute button and keep staring.