Sweet Suffering Jesus

[pecunium]

I don't care what they try to say, this isn't Moby Dick

The writers revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab’s obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain.

This change will allow them to depict the whale’s decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab’s Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.

Morons.

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

It's the Peter Benchley version of Moby Dick!

[bifemmefatale.livejournal.com]

I agree. Prairie Home Companion had a great satire of this last weekend.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

It's probably some kind of dick.

[bifemmefatale.livejournal.com]

Limp, I'm thinkin'. :P

[aostara.livejournal.com]

Methinks they ENTIRELY missed the point of the book :-

[ruthless1.livejournal.com]

Well, at least Bushco, McSameco ect might have an easier time of understanding the nuances. Since they'll be, like, REMOVED.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Ahab... [less] brooding obsessive

. <--- This is the point.         --->this is by how much they are missing it.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Call it Dopey Mick.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I can't wait until they change Ahab's leg into a chainsaw-forearm. Fueled by whale oil, of course.

-- Steve's also anticipating with great pleasure the addition of a wise-cracking juvenile sidekick and a tough-but-vulnerable love interest.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Hold up.

*thinks*

"Revere Melville's original text" equals "Will imitate the style of nineteenth-century prose, badly"?

Edit: No, that's unfair. They might not actually do it badly ... on a sentence level.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

'tough but vulnerable love interest'. I thought that was the whale.