{"id":2578,"date":"2007-06-10T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2007-06-10T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T22:17:00","slug":"2578","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Nielsen Hayden<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When you work for a long time in literary affairs, you get used to the idea that people who write brilliant books sometimes say foolish things. But you never entirely stop wincing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Specifically, he’s talking about Ray Bradbury, who would have us now believe that Fahrenheit 451<\/i> isn’t really about censorship<\/a> — and, more to the point, that we’ve never had<\/i> censorship in this country. (Even though, as Hayden points out, he’s said pretty much the exact opposite of this in the past.) I love the man’s stories dearly, but he seems like such a grumpy old man, and it’s hard not to wince at some of the foolish things he says.<\/p>\n

The same now goes for Eric Idle, who is apparently upset over the coconut gag in Shrek the Third<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

“…there it is in the first 30 seconds — you go — wait a minute, John [Cleese] and I are in this film and you steal our joke? Um, I don’t know how the others are going to take to this … I hope they (Dreamworks) cleared it with them — the first I saw it was in the premiere — and I was SHOCKED — my whole family went WHAT! How dare you! So I walked out — calmed down — and walked back in — but I was shocked and I think if you steal peoples jokes, I don’t think that’s homage, I think that’s theft.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m really hoping Idle is kidding, and that that’s just not coming across in print. Because the cocount gag, more famously from Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/i>, was one of only a small handful of things I truly enjoyed about the third Shrek<\/i> movie. It definitely felt like an homage to me — not least of all because, if you weren’t familiar with the gag in Grail<\/i>, you probably didn’t even notice it in Shrek<\/i>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Nielsen Hayden: When you work for a long time in literary affairs, you get used to the idea that people who write brilliant books sometimes say foolish things. But you never entirely stop wincing. Specifically, he’s talking about Ray Bradbury, who would have us now believe that Fahrenheit 451 isn’t really about censorship — … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}