Comments on: Thirst: jmag review http://www.martynpedler.com/2009/12/thirst-jmag-review/ "All I want is the answer to one simple question before I run screaming back to the bughouse. Is this real or isn't it?" Cliff Steele, DOOM PATROL #21. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martyn http://www.martynpedler.com/2009/12/thirst-jmag-review/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Martyn Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:29:33 +0000 http://www.martynpedler.com/?p=1067#comment-106 Interesting! I haven't read it, but sounds like it's slightly less of a stretch than I imagined. I did get a chance to attend a Q&A with Chan-wook Park at Comic-Con this year where he explained that he was going to do a straight adaptation of "Therese Raquin", and perhaps a separate a vampire movie - but neither of them were quite working. So THIRST is the result of a sudden flash of inspiration to slam them together. (I hope that whatever classic novel you read next is also turned into a Korean horror film, just to freak you out.) Interesting! I haven’t read it, but sounds like it’s slightly less of a stretch than I imagined.

I did get a chance to attend a Q&A with Chan-wook Park at Comic-Con this year where he explained that he was going to do a straight adaptation of “Therese Raquin”, and perhaps a separate a vampire movie – but neither of them were quite working. So THIRST is the result of a sudden flash of inspiration to slam them together.

(I hope that whatever classic novel you read next is also turned into a Korean horror film, just to freak you out.)

]]> By: Manolis http://www.martynpedler.com/2009/12/thirst-jmag-review/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Manolis Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:08:13 +0000 http://www.martynpedler.com/?p=1067#comment-105 How odd -- I only recently read Therese Raquin last month, and now it's been made into a Korean horror flick! Therese Raquin is kinda vampiric and kinda horrorific. Zola, under the sway of positivistic thinking, deliberately wanted the morally repugnant characters in the book to take on characteristics physically and behaviourally that could "scientifically" show they were morally repugnant underneath. This, he thought, made his book "more real", or something of the sort. And in the book, there is a bite on the neck that becomes festy, which works as a cliched metaphor -- at least these days it's cliched -- for the road down moral perdition that the characters follow. How odd — I only recently read Therese Raquin last month, and now it’s been made into a Korean horror flick!

Therese Raquin is kinda vampiric and kinda horrorific. Zola, under the sway of positivistic thinking, deliberately wanted the morally repugnant characters in the book to take on characteristics physically and behaviourally that could “scientifically” show they were morally repugnant underneath.

This, he thought, made his book “more real”, or something of the sort.

And in the book, there is a bite on the neck that becomes festy, which works as a cliched metaphor — at least these days it’s cliched — for the road down moral perdition that the characters follow.

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