March 03, 2009

A Man from The South and The Zippo Lighter

In class we just finished reading the brilliantly written short story ( full version )by Roald Dahl " A Man from the South"....and while searching around at Youtube.com I just found this modern adaptation of that wonderfully gruesome black-humor story...but somehow this video lacks the intensity of the written story....somehow this is just a bunch of kids who may have had a project to complete in their film making class....nothing wrong with that - it is just that - in me at least - there wasn't this: well done! resonance effect as it came through when I first read the story and even by rereading it I felt the same fulfillment - sorry "boys"...I rather go for the Cadillac!