I’m always a few days behind on Doctor Who<\/i>.<\/p>\n
It can’t be helped, really. And me, being me, I knew a fair little bit about Dr. River Song long before I’d gotten around to finally seeing “Silence in the Library.”<\/p>\n
And what I’d heard and read made me think of a single thing — The Time Traveler’s Wife<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I’d read the book a few years ago, not long after it had come out. I found it romantic and tragic and sad and hopeful. I liked it.<\/p>\n
It’s a book that is, as the Doctor would say, “wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.”<\/p>\n
I should probably dig out my copy of the book, and give it a look over before the second part of “Library.” Not that there’s anything that Time Traveler’s Wife<\/i> would spoil about Doctor Who<\/i> — one story is about the endurance of love across time, while the other is about killer shadows in a library — but you never know.<\/p>\n
It’s been adapted as a movie, coming out this fall, I think. Starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, if memory serves.<\/p>\n
There’s one other wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey movie coming out this fall that I’m curious about.<\/p>\n
David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/i>, about a man born backwards in time, who grows into youth as the world grows older.<\/p>\n
This has come up in conversation twice in the past two days, in both cases as, “Have you heard about this?” And, of course, I had.<\/p>\n
It’s based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story.<\/p>\n
Yes, we normally associate Fitzgerald with The Great Gatsby<\/i> and This Side of Paradise<\/i>, and stories about the rich and the sheltered in the Roaring Twenties, but that’s not the entirety of Fitzgerald’s work.<\/p>\n
He wrote historical heroic fantasy, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n
I suppose if there’s a director who could bring “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” to the big screen, it would be David Fincher. I once said, in all seriousness, on a message board that I thought a short story I’d written — “Make-Believe” — was absolutely unfilmable, but that if someone could film it, it would be David Fincher. I couldn’t tell you how. I have no idea what the screenplay would be like or how it would work. But I can almost<\/i> envision it.<\/p>\n
It’s probably the nihilism in his body of work. From Alien 3<\/i> to Se7en<\/i> to Fight Club<\/i> and beyond, Fincher’s work isn’t just adept at conveying a visual style, but it also carries with it meaning and depth. Fincher is a big budget arthouse director. At least, that’s how he comes across to me.<\/p>\n
Coming back to Doctor Who<\/i>, “Silence in the Library” had me on the edge of my seat. And I have absolutely no idea where it’s going. Brilliant stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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