HeyJaredThe Projectionist's Lending Library
Two literary scholars discuss great (and some not-great) books and their adaptations.
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05.06 Peter Benchley, Steven Spielberg, and JAWS (1974/1975) (opens the original)
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In 1974, Peter Benchley shocked the world with his story of a Great White Shark terrorizing a small resort community. In 1975, Steven Spielberg did it again, creating in the process the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Jaws is a story that made generations afraid to go into the water. It’s also the story of a troubled marriage, of a man and a woman just reaching middle age and realizing that youth has passed. It’s the story of a police chief helplessly seeing his wife slip away from him and a woman
5.05: Ray Bradbury, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1962) & Disney (1983) (opens the original)
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Come one, come all - step right up to the Projectionist's Lending Library's very own carnival, featuring Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES! Kline and Booth are joined by returning guest Dr. Matthew Wells as they discuss Bradbury's haunted tale of a small town's visit from an uncanny carnival, as well as the later Disney adaptation of it.
05.04: Dan Brown, Ron Howard, and THE DA VINCI CODE (2003; 2006) (opens the original)
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A dead man in a famous museum A series of cryptic clues A mystery leading to the greatest secret in history (Well, until the next one) These are the elements that make up Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code , a chunky little thriller following Harvard professor Robert Langdon across a danger-filled Paris. It’s a potboiler, a fantasy, and a Grail-quest. It’s a tissue of pseudo-history and lies. It’s adream that could only have been evoked in the early-Twenty-First Century. It’s also the topic of this m
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