I should be grading, but I'm blogging--in the writing center no less. I should have finished grading papers this weekend, but I watched basketball and read Joe Wenderoth's "Letters to Wendys," a brilliant series of prose poems. For a year Wenderoth composed a prose poem a day in the space of a Wendy's comment card. (a short review will be forthcoming)
Tomorrow we begin discussing Hamlet in my lit class and I had the thought that there ought to be a Kung Fu version of Hamlet. One could make the claim that all Kung Fu films are versions of Hamlet. They are all revenge films.
I just did a google search and found that there is, in fact, a play called "Kung Fu Hamlet." But we need a film--with poorly dubbed soliloquies.
Monday, April 04, 2005
Kung Fu Hamlet
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Check out the NYTimes art section from yesterday (Sunday, Apr. 3). Someone held a "Write like David Mamet" competition, and there was an entry entitled "Mamlet." Perhaps as good, and certainly as necessary, as "Kung Fu Hamlet."
How about a kung fu version of Rosencranz and Guildenstern?
R&G are the patsy false friends who get the shit kicked out of them in the first real of Kung Fu Hamlet.
And I meant "reel", of course.
Post a Comment