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- From: tjk5@po.cwru.edu (Timothy Kordas)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Neuromancer dream-cast and soundtrack
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:46:52 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- In article <wilder.722036873@mik.uky.edu> wilder@nx03.mik.uky.edu (jeff wilder) writes:
- >From: wilder@nx03.mik.uky.edu (jeff wilder)
- >Subject: Re: Neuromancer dream-cast and soundtrack
- >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:47:53 GMT
- >In <tjk5.36.722022011@po.cwru.edu> tjk5@po.cwru.edu (Timothy Kordas) writes:
- >
- >|>|I believe that _Le Femme Nikita_ was produced in 1991, or at least that's
- >|>|what the flyer I got when I saw it says (pinned above my desk). She doesn't
- >|>|really fit my image of Molly very well....I second Jennifer Jason Leigh
- >|>|(short haired one :-) ).......
- >
- >|>That's odd. I wouldn't swear to it, but I was very certain that _La_
- >|>Femme_Nikita_ was listed in TVGuide as early '80s when I watched it last
- >|>Tuesday night. Typo, maybe?
- >
- >|Your source or mine? :-) Well I've heard it said several times that
- >|just after _La Femme Nikita_ came out, that one of the big mainstream
- >|producers picked up the story and was going to hollywoodize it (BAD IDEA!)
- >|--that was only about a year ago...It also LOOKED pretty modern to me,
- >|ie not '82 clothes....
- >
- >|Where/when was it playing on TV?? did they play the dubbed version (corny
- >|bad actors who completely destroyed all of the tension in the movie, and
- >|actually made scenes--like the opening drug-store sequence--funny when it
- >|shouldn't have been)
- >
- >It was on one of the premium channels...MAX, I think. And yeah, the dubbing
- >was pretty bad. In fact, during the scene you mentioned I had to turn away
- >from my set. Luckily I had seen that scene before, with subtitles. I still
- >had to suffer through the rest of the dubbing, though.
- >
- >I just dug my TVG out of the trash to check, and it lists _Nikita_ as '81.
- >Must be a typo. I see what you mean about the *look* being modern; I guess
- >I just let the atrocious dubbing convince me the film was older than it is.
-
- Yeah...imagine my surprise when I found out that the video I bought was the
- dubbed version (I didn't even THINK of that possibility when I saw it in the
- $6 barrel at the video store...:-( )
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- -Tim Kordas
- kordas@snowhite.eeap.cwru.edu
-