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Post by everso on Jan 15, 2009 15:48:38 GMT
Yielding to the impulse of the moment I pushed him under the wheels of a trolley-car, and ran.
See, now that just makes me burst out laughing. Am I strange or what?
P.G. Wodehouse is one of my all time favourites. I "discovered" him about 15 years ago and went through the books like a dose of salts.
I don't really think those books can be successfully brought to the screen. Fry and Laurie were good, but the thing is that the books are, pretty much, a narrative and the humour of that narrative doesn't always come across on screen.
One of my favourite quotes goes something like: He had the look of surprise on his face like someone who'd just been hit in the back by the Cornish Express.
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Post by trubble on Jan 15, 2009 15:52:06 GMT
Yielding to the impulse of the moment I pushed him under the wheels of a trolley-car, and ran. See, now that just makes me burst out laughing. Am I strange or what? P.G. Wodehouse is one of my all time favourites. I "discovered" him about 15 years ago and went through the books like a dose of salts. I don't really think those books can be successfully brought to the screen. Fry and Laurie were good, but the thing is that the books are, pretty much, a narrative and the humour of that narrative doesn't always come across on screen. One of my favourite quotes goes something like: He had the look of surprise on his face like someone who'd just been hit in the back by the Cornish Express. It's those quotes that make the books so good, the best one (and over quoted admittedly) has to be the disgruntled one. Fry and Laurie refused the project at first because they agreed with you, everso, but as it became clear that it would go ahead with ot without them they decided that the only people they could trust not to completely wreck it was themselves, so they did it. ;D
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