Hemingway and the Movies
Hemingway’s big novels have all been made into movies, some several times. He claims to have hated to go to see his books as cinema. Aside from enjoying the paycheck that came with the adaptations, (he was paid $ 80,000 for A Farewell to Arms in 1932, which was an enormous sum in those day and […]
Casting the Big Novels: Me as Casting Director
Now, who should play the great parts that Hem has provided for us? My selections in bold: The Sun Also Rises: (1957) Tyrone Power (Jake Gyllenhall) as Jake Barnes Ava Gardner (Blake Lively) Brett Ashley Mel Ferrer (Matt Damon) as Robert Cohn Errol Flynn (Jude Law) as Mike Campbell A Farewell to Arms: (1932) Helen Hayes (Angelina Jolie) […]