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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vogon Poet: [QB] On a lighter note, I found myself thinking the other day about how [i]Oedipus Rex[/i] (the play by Sophocles) wouldn't make a good movie. That's not to say it hasn't been made into a film (I've seen at least one, filmed on an ancient Greek site which managed to give the impression that ancient Greeks lived in crumbling ruins with walls never more than a foot above the ground), just that by today's standards it wouldn't. First of all, there's the whole older woman thing. Ew. It's never worked too well. Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft were virtually the same age IRL when filming [i]The Graduate[/i]. Sure the difference when Oedipus and, um, whatsername (it was a question in my Greek Civilisation 'O'-Level and I couldn't remember it then, still got an A grade though) isn't that much greater than Annakin and Padm�, but that's still way too much. On the other hand, I gather Jessica Lange is quite hot in [i]Titus[/i] and she gets to shag Alan Cumming, but I haven't seen it. Jocasta. I just looked it up. In the exam I just wrote "JOsquiggle." Anyway. Then there's the whole way Oedipus became king. Contrived or what? Not the whole Sphinx thing, but rather the way he inadvertently bumps off his father yet never wonders why there's no hue-and-cry over the murder of some old man out in the country, still less investigate his predecessor's death or get to see the corpse during the inevitable state funeral. Or get to hear about how the old king deepsixed his own son on account of some prophecy. I hope he found time to shitcan his National Security Adviser before getting on to the whole self-blinding thing. So, there. Edipis is better-named than we realized. 8) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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