June 2010
20 posts
On The Road... Pre-Movie stamp of approval
So I must admit I was more than skeptical and a little bit agitated/stressed out when I heard that On The Road was being made into a movie. But now, I am completely excited because: Sal and Dean are played by unfamous actors, Kristen Stewart (Mary Lou) and Kirsten Dunst (Camille) are involved, Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries!!!) is directing, Jose Rivera wrote the screenplay, and Francis Ford Coppola is executive producing. Every main character has MAJOR crunch-potential and is extremely good looking… so I’m hoping when they get them a little bit dirty and a little bit beat the results will be orgasmic.
Now before you bitch and moan about Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst, keep in mind that other than their major annoying parts (Bring It On and some might say Twilight Saga), they both have significant indie cred and acting talent. Virgin Diaries, Into the Wild, The Anteaters, In the Land of Women, Marie Antoinette, etc etc etc… They both are dark enough to be in this movie and are solid young actresses. With the right direction, I really think these two could be great. Try to think of two other people who are 20ish years old (or look like it) that could be Camille and Mary Lou. Megan Fox? Emma Watson? No, thank you.
Anyway, there’s a lot of great talent attached to this movie, and I am excited. On the Road is one of my all time favorite books, like beyond words. Here’s hoping….
Sal Paradise:
Dean Moriarty:
Camille:
Mary Lou:
“It is because I am Beat, that is, I believe in beatitude and that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son to it… Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?”
—Kerouac, “Is There A Beat Generation?” forum at Hunter College, New York, New York (8 November 1958)
“We should be wondering tonight, “Is there a world?” But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I’m walkin’ on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you’ll find out.”
—Kerouac, “Is There A Beat Generation?” forum at Hunter College, New York, New York (8 November 1958)
Listen
“Is There A Beat Generation?” by Jack Kerouac
Twelve wonderful minutes of Kerouac speaking about the Beat Generation, well worth the listen.
Amazing.
True to its tag, this is what people should reblog.
This is great.
Kind of wondering if Shifa’s heard this one…
Thanks for bringing this to my attention Karthik =)
Jack Kerouac’s list of 30 essentials from Belief and Technique... →
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this is Jack Kerouac’s list of 30 essentials from Belief and Technique for Modern Prose explicating in writing his Spontaneous Prose method:
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- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
- Submissive to everything, open, listening
- Try never get drunk outside your own house
- Be in love with your life
- Something that you feel will find its own form
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
- Blow as deep as you want to blow
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
- The unspeakable visions of the individual
- No time for poetry but exactly what is
- Visionary tics shivering in the chest
- In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
- Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
- Like Proust be an old teahead of time
- Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
- The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
- Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
- Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
- Accept loss forever
- Believe in the holy contour of life
- Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
- Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
- Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
- No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
- Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it
- Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
- In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
- Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
- You’re a Genius all the time
- Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
