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I don't remember when I first heard the radio dramatisation of The Idiot, but I know it was before I went to work at Disney, because it made me laugh when people there called anything mildly unpleasant "dark." No, no, this is dark. It takes a really brutal turn at the end, but there's plenty of the darkness of the human soul right from the beginning.
I only know Tolstoy and Dostoevsky from dramatisations of their work, but if that's anything to go by, I prefer the latter: Tolstoy is a great observer of people, but Dostoevsky sees through them. In doing so, he makes the genre of 19th-century drawing-room drama – which I tend to find petty and tiresome – into an indictment of that whole world, and thereby much more satisfying.
But what do I know, I've never read the books.
Once upon a time I had an idea to do an art book of "failed adaptations" – Disney-style concept art for hilariously un-Disney properties – where I could learn different styles and apply them to such inappropriate* stories as Lord of the Flies and Fahrenheit 451. When my dreams of working in vis dev died a wholly justifiable death, there didn't seem much point for the exercise, but I still think about it sometimes.
*I still think these would make great animated films; they are "inappropriate" only for the general public's disagreement with that idea. There's no reason animation has to be just for kids!
It's funny, now that I'm doing my former "playtime" (drawing polar explorers) for a """job""", I have to remind myself to play occasionally – there's book stuff I need to be doing, but if I don't have a bit of fun every now and again, even a job as fun and rewarding as that will start to wear heavy.
I don't remember when I first heard the radio dramatisation of The Idiot, but I know it was before I went to work at Disney, because it made me laugh when people there called anything mildly unpleasant "dark." No, no, this is dark. It takes a really brutal turn at the end, but there's plenty of the darkness of the human soul right from the beginning.
I only know Tolstoy and Dostoevsky from dramatisations of their work, but if that's anything to go by, I prefer the latter: Tolstoy is a great observer of people, but Dostoevsky sees through them. In doing so, he makes the genre of 19th-century drawing-room drama – which I tend to find petty and tiresome – into an indictment of that whole world, and thereby much more satisfying.
But what do I know, I've never read the books.
Once upon a time I had an idea to do an art book of "failed adaptations" – Disney-style concept art for hilariously un-Disney properties – where I could learn different styles and apply them to such inappropriate* stories as Lord of the Flies and Fahrenheit 451. When my dreams of working in vis dev died a wholly justifiable death, there didn't seem much point for the exercise, but I still think about it sometimes.
*I still think these would make great animated films; they are "inappropriate" only for the general public's disagreement with that idea. There's no reason animation has to be just for kids!
It's funny, now that I'm doing my former "playtime" (drawing polar explorers) for a """job""", I have to remind myself to play occasionally – there's book stuff I need to be doing, but if I don't have a bit of fun every now and again, even a job as fun and rewarding as that will start to wear heavy.
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