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tiltingheartand) wrote2007-03-15 07:18 pm
tiltingheartand) wrote2007-03-15 07:18 pm
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WTF moment of the day: one of the books we had to get for my American Lit class (this term it's Modernism Through The Present, and the way she teaches it it deserves every capital letter there) was Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Which, cool, I flipped through it the day I got it and it looks pretty interesting, not something I'll dislike reading for a class. So she was talking about it, and how there was no film adaptation if it that she knew of. And she'd mentioned it in the context of a cyberpunk novel, so I had a feeling she was going to bring up Neuromancer, and guess what! she did!
Only, um.
She mentioned it as having a film adaptation we'd all know, and it turned out to be THE MATRIX.
So after my initial WHAT reaction, I thought about it (for the rest of the class, yes) and decided that, okay, I guess I can see some parallels (Molly and Trinity as gorgeous women who show up and become love interests, although the Molly/Case relationship is a lot different than the Neo/Trinity one, and maybe Armitage and Morpheus as, I don't know, Authority Figures or something, although I'd like to point out that Morpheus has the distinct advantage of not being crazy, and after that I sort of run out) but. Um.
Just no.
(People who've read Neuromancer and seen The Matrix: is it just me?)
Only, um.
She mentioned it as having a film adaptation we'd all know, and it turned out to be THE MATRIX.
So after my initial WHAT reaction, I thought about it (for the rest of the class, yes) and decided that, okay, I guess I can see some parallels (Molly and Trinity as gorgeous women who show up and become love interests, although the Molly/Case relationship is a lot different than the Neo/Trinity one, and maybe Armitage and Morpheus as, I don't know, Authority Figures or something, although I'd like to point out that Morpheus has the distinct advantage of not being crazy, and after that I sort of run out) but. Um.
Just no.
(People who've read Neuromancer and seen The Matrix: is it just me?)
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Molly and Trinity aren't even alike except inasmuch as they're both competent and gorgeous.
Um.
What?
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It's sort of like -- if this is true which I doubt with basically every fiber of my being -- the Wachowski Brothers read Neuromancer and said "ooh, I like this phrase and maybe the idea of a gorgeous competent woman and an enigmatic leader, but screw how these ones turned out, let's do something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT".
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And, uh, okay, it was new when Neuromancer came out, but by the 90's?
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I really want to know if she ever, like. Read Neuromancer, um. Ever.