Huxley vs Orwell who got it right? Comix

[nashville_brook]

80. totally agree -- i take guilty pleasure in his stuff being re-imagined

in film, often better than his original writing. and that's not necessarily a knock on the writer. i think it's easier for visual artists to communicate some of what he's after. there were inherent limits to the style and the form he was using. plus, he was trying to figure things out as he went along, which doesn't always make for great storytelling.

we just watched Radio Free Albemuth last night -- which was pretty bad as a movie. if you view it as a visualization of one of writing, though, it's interesting and not too horrible. I'm still thinking about it. there's just too much there to treat in a 90-minute movie. it needs to be spread out over 20 episodes or more. there needs to be a ton more backstory, and character building. i want to know everything about the west coast he's writing about, and everything about the alternate version of "America" that's glossed over. there could hours of material just on the satellite and on his gnosticism.

the visual treatment of Blade Runner really cracked this equation b/c it gave shape to his post-captalist vision and culture mash-up sensibility. The Man In The High Castle benefits from this visual history and builds on it.