 Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo |
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 Dec 1 2004, 08:07 PM
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 B.P.D.  Group: Members Posts: 2,624 Joined: 19-March 04 From: crummy apartment in the Midwest Member No.: 313  |
Anyone read it? (Or seen the movie?) I just heard about it, and it looks really interesting (however disturbing it may turn out to be). We can't really talk about the book's implications because of political content, but would anyone recommend it?
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Dec 3 2004, 12:08 PM
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A Slut With A Mission Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 18-September 03 Member No.: 40 |
Years ago, in a creative writing class, the teacher posed the question, "What is the worst thing that you can imagine happening to you?" After pondering various torture/death scenarios, I wrote that remaining alive, but rendered completely blind/deaf/dumb/immobile, would be the worst fate I could imagine. The teacher asked if I had read "Johnny Got His Gun". I'd never heard of it, so I read it shortly thereafter. I thought it was very good. I also enjoyed the movie several years later.
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Dec 9 2004, 03:16 PM
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 A Little Lower Than the Angels Group: Members Posts: 907 Joined: 6-March 04 From: Santa Marta, Colombia Member No.: 228 |
Here is an excellent article on the legacy of Dalton Trumbo...he would've turned 99 today:
http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/0202/trumbo.html Also: "Trumbo was one of the 'Hollywood Ten,' the guys who stood up to the House Un-American Activities Committee even though it meant jail time, and was also blacklisted for his political stand--but he also won two Oscars while writing under various pseudonyms, and he was the first blacklisted writer to get his own name back on the screen with Spartacus." ~ http://www.beatrice.com/ This post has been edited by amcorrea: Dec 9 2004, 03:29 PM -------------------- "There is no mystery in art. Do the things you can see, they will show you what you cannot see."
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