A pretty spectacular slideshow of tattoos.
The slideshow came to my attention because of Book Slut’s post about the tattoo of Leona the lizard girl from Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love:
Geek Love is one of the most shattering books I have ever read (excerpt here) – and I still believe that the less said about it the better (although I loveto run into people who have read it … it’s like we’re members of some small elite cult). My friend Mitchell always thought it should be made into a film – but not live-action – he thought it should be a dark surreal cartoon, which I still think is a brilliant idea.
I love that Nightmare Before Christmas tattoo.
A dark surreal cartoon is a great idea! I’m always afraid of my favorite books being turned into movies because the images I have in my head are so strong that it almost feels like a betrayal when a movie tries, and fails, to live up to that image. (For ex. Simon Birch, which I’m a total snob for actually even bringing up as an example because I haven’t even seen the movie! But John Irving disowned it, and made them change the name from Owen Meany to Simon Birch, so I feel justified.) BUT a dark surreal cartoon version of Geek Love is such an awesome idea that it adds to the image I have in my head. I sooo want to see that movie!
Erik – I hear ya on being a snob. I’m a snob about Shipping News and haven’t even seen it. I don’t need to. You cast Kevin Spacey as Quoyle then I automatically know you are WAY off.
I just always thought the idea of a dark beautifully done surreal cartoon would be so great for Geek Love – because if you try to CGI real live actors to have tails or fins or be or Siamese twins – or all of the other things going on … It just would pull the audience out of it, I think. If it’s a cartoon, it’s implicitly not real -so it could be way more fantastical and nightmarish.
Anyway, that was our dream of the movie adaptation!
There was this indie movie about Siamese twins several years back, it was called Twin Falls Idaho, and the Siamese twins were played by identical non-Siamese twin actors, and I remember I was invested in the story and then, suddenly, there was a dream/fantasy sequence that showed the actors “separate,” riding on bikes, and I remember being so mad at that scene because it immediately pulled me out of the fantasy of them being connected and for the rest of the movie all I saw was the illusion of them being connected. All of that’s to say that, yes, CGI tails and fins would SUCK.
I saw your brother at Tuesdays tonight! It was great to see him, I hadn’t seen him in a really long time!
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