Manchurian Candidate
SQ and I got into a sneak preview for the Manchurian Candidate on Tuesday. Which was good, but lead to lots of questions:
Why does Hollywood remake perfectly fine movies? (although interestingly it took the anti-communist line and twisted it around into something quite different, we hadn't really talked much about that SQ)
Why do people bother to line up in San Francisco, when they are less likely to in other places? What is the culture of lines? How does game theory and the tragedy of the commons play in?
What would be the horse equivelant of excalibur?
Speaking of Arthur, SQ: fine modern renditions of the legend are TH White, The Once and Future King; MZ Bradley's the Mists of Avalon; Steinbeck wrote the Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, his and TH Whites are pretty faithful to the story in Mort D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (which maybe was what you were thinking of when you said Cantebury Tales? it is the prototypical medieval version); Jack White is writing a series of books that tells the story fairly faithfully to Malory but in a post Roman setting (a la Arthur the movie), but I for some reason don't like them very much. There is an amazing amount of others which I can't remember of the top of my head.
Historical and Legendary Sources:
http://www.britannia.com/history/artdocs.html
The Mabinogion is a collection of Welsh tales that has some Arthurian references
Grail stuff
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06719a.htm ( this has a good discussion of Christian versus Celtic origins for the grail story)
A French tale of the Grail"
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Graal/
A tract on Medieval politics
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-03.htm
Why does Hollywood remake perfectly fine movies? (although interestingly it took the anti-communist line and twisted it around into something quite different, we hadn't really talked much about that SQ)
Why do people bother to line up in San Francisco, when they are less likely to in other places? What is the culture of lines? How does game theory and the tragedy of the commons play in?
What would be the horse equivelant of excalibur?
Speaking of Arthur, SQ: fine modern renditions of the legend are TH White, The Once and Future King; MZ Bradley's the Mists of Avalon; Steinbeck wrote the Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, his and TH Whites are pretty faithful to the story in Mort D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (which maybe was what you were thinking of when you said Cantebury Tales? it is the prototypical medieval version); Jack White is writing a series of books that tells the story fairly faithfully to Malory but in a post Roman setting (a la Arthur the movie), but I for some reason don't like them very much. There is an amazing amount of others which I can't remember of the top of my head.
Historical and Legendary Sources:
http://www.britannia.com/history/artdocs.html
The Mabinogion is a collection of Welsh tales that has some Arthurian references
Grail stuff
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06719a.htm ( this has a good discussion of Christian versus Celtic origins for the grail story)
A French tale of the Grail"
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Graal/
A tract on Medieval politics
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-03.htm
