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Tue Nov 26th, 2002 at 11:28:34 GMT
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Lem's Solaris is a movie... again
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Tomorrow is the opening of the Hollywood remake of Solaris, which is based on the science fiction novel of the same title by Stanislaw Lem, astonishingly fresh Polish writer of fiction and essays about fiction.
The first movie was done by Tarkovsky in 1972. The new one was produced by James Cameron (The Terminator) and directed by Steven Soderbergh (Traffic), and it stars George Clooney.
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But perhaps it's fitting that Solaris - translated into French, then abridged, then retranslated into English, then reworked as a screenplay, sent through the Hollywood development process, and served up as a congenial fairy tale - is the story by which Lem will become known in America. During the past half-century, Lem has written about all kinds of fantastic inventions - robots, surveillance operations, matchmaking devices, governance by drugs, governance by computers, terrorism by laughter and by potions that make you hiccup without stopping. His stories involve accidents, malfunctions, misinterpretations, mistakes of perception, dogmatic blindness. A person encounters a system, and the results of the encounter reveal the limits of both. Now, 40 years after its publication, Lem's own book has gotten away from him, like some small mechanism in a wayward machine.
Also check out The official Stanislaw Lem site made by the author's son. |
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