It seems all the threads on Hollis are closed. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm so tired, but why didn't Beth Gibbons/ Portishead turn up up as a possible inspiration? She / they fit perfectly.
Now they are back, so maybe Bigend really exists.
All you can say is WHAT happened. You do not know why. You will never know why.
All I hope is there will never be a movie again about one of W. Gibson's books. Of course, it would probably mean a lot of money for him, but as far as I'm concerned, the risk of completely missing the point is too high.
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Like the Anna Gavalda film, Ensemble C'est Tout (novel is called Hunting & Gathering in English! Now there's a weird translation of a title!!! In Norwegian Together You Are Less Alone-- ok I think)
The writing is what makes the book, not so much the plot or even the dialogue. I think that is problematic unless you have narration throughout in a movie.
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And it hadn’t hurt that Bobby was himself a musician, though not in the old plays-a-physical-instrument-and/or-sings modality. He took things apart, sampled them, mashed them up. This was fine with her, though like General Bosquet watching the charge of the Light Brigade, she was inclined to think it wasn’t war. Inchmale understood it, though, and indeed had championed it, as soon as it was digitally possible, pulling guitar lines out of obscure garage chestnuts and stretching them, like a mad jeweler elongating sturdy Victorian tableware into something insectile, post-functionally fragile, and neurologically dangerous.
from 15. SPIV
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Heidi’s unexpected appearance here, and now this close-up look at Starck’s Boy Scouts of America beatnik jazz tableau, were bringing up all the pain of Jimmy for her. It was as if she expected him to be there, as if he should be there, as if he actually were there, just out of focus, or around some corner. Hadn’t spiritualists arranged instruments this way, in their séance parlors? Though of these four, the electric bass, Jimmy’s instrument, was the only one you couldn’t just pick up and play, were you determined to. No cord, no amp, no speaker.
Portishead/ Beth Gibbons makes a complete match, for me. But now I can´t reconstruct if I did think of them during the read, or the idea is so good, I just rearrange my memory to fit it...
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The band my brain seemed to put in the space for the Curfew was 'My Bloody Valentine'. Belinda & Kevin (esp w/ how Kevin's into production and often viewed as the keyman) in the rolls as singer and guitarist just felt right.
Johnette Napolitano, from Concrete Blonde, with shorter hair, was who I imagined her as. Approximately at least, mostly she looked like Hollis Henry, who happens to resemble Johnette N.
Of course she's probably a blond (Hollis) in the text or something which I read-roughshod right over.
I always dug Concrete Blond. Too bad they went and hid in South America...
I don't know if I see Jonette as Hollis though--she's got too much of a taste for the dramatic and romantic while Hollis seems more no-nonsense, to me.
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Originally posted by InfinityCircuit: I always dug Concrete Blond. Too bad they went and hid in South America...
I don't know if I see Jonette as Hollis though--she's got too much of a taste for the dramatic and romantic while Hollis seems more no-nonsense, to me.
Fair enough, their personality doesn't factor in to it for me. Hollis = Hollis.
Finding a "body model" for them from actual songstresses...that's just good internet fun.
Also it turns out Johnette doesn't look quite like I thought she did, so....I think it was mostly the hair\skin combo that suggested HH for me. I think I've only heard her (Johnette) speak once.
