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    In what way is it a slap in the face? In a good way?

    I quite like the film, but then I haven't read the book. I can only think of one film that's been better than the book: One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Squeamous View Post
    OMG.

    8pm Monday evening, C4.

    Richard Dawkins......the thinking woman's aged crumpet, doing a documentary on only the most influential and bestest scientist in the world, Charles Darwin.

    I am so damned well going to watch it
    I like Dawkins despite not entirely sharing his absolute certainty on the lack of teapots flying around Jupiter. Darwin was an interesting chap too. I shall give it a look.

    Prolly won't moisten my underwear though

    I thought Maxwell was the bestestist scientists.

    ......actually there have been a lot of bestestist scientists over the years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chalice View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Squeamous View Post

    Is the book better than the film?
    Infinitely, if you're a lover of language. That novel, despite the subject matter, is a slap in the face for the English language.

    Personally, I don't think Kubrick was nearly successful, like.

    Still, David Lynch says it's his favourite movie ever so...

    So?

    Exactly.
    Mason and Sellers were excellent in the original film - haven't seen the remake. I think it is best to treat films as additions to the book rather than a direct replacement. If one has even half an imagination the pictures in your head are going to be better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Squeamous View Post
    In what way is it a slap in the face? In a good way?

    I quite like the film, but then I haven't read the book. I can only think of one film that's been better than the book: One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest.
    His prose slapped me in that I was painfully aware that a writer, writing in his second and adopted language was able to far surpass in lyricism and depth anything I'd read hitherto.

    Read the fuck out of it or do something else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Biggles View Post
    I like Dawkins despite not entirely sharing his absolute certainty on the lack of teapots flying around Jupiter. Darwin was an interesting chap too. I shall give it a look.

    Prolly won't moisten my underwear though

    I thought Maxwell was the bestestist scientists.

    ......actually there have been a lot of bestestist scientists over the years.
    Actually I forgot about Da Vinci . Ok, he was the best, then Hooke and then Darwin. For now

    I really appreciate polymaths. I think it takes something special to even only be able to do lots of things moderately well rather than one thing very well. Da Vinci gets top billing for doing everything very well .

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    Quote Originally Posted by chalice View Post

    His prose slapped me in that I was painfully aware that a writer, writing in his second and adopted language was able to far surpass in lyricism and depth anything I'd read hitherto.

    Read the fuck out of it or do something else.
    Ok, I will. Read it I mean

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    Polymath

    That is for wallpaper, right?
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    I think probably Da Vinci's wall could do with some

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    Quote Originally Posted by Squeamous View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Biggles View Post
    I like Dawkins despite not entirely sharing his absolute certainty on the lack of teapots flying around Jupiter. Darwin was an interesting chap too. I shall give it a look.

    Prolly won't moisten my underwear though

    I thought Maxwell was the bestestist scientists.

    ......actually there have been a lot of bestestist scientists over the years.
    Actually I forgot about Da Vinci . Ok, he was the best, then Hooke and then Darwin. For now

    I really appreciate polymaths. I think it takes something special to even only be able to do lots of things moderately well rather than one thing very well. Da Vinci gets top billing for doing everything very well .
    I'm sure I've said it elsewhere, probly started a thread about it and everything.

    Leonard of Quirm is the greatest genious the World has ever produced.

    So far.
    "there is nothing misogynistic about anything, stop trippin.
    i type this way because im black and from nyc chill son "

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    I agree. And it's nice to see being a heemasex didn't hold him back. He's an inspiration to Benchez fairies everywhere .

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