Dickensblog

Is 'Iron Man 3' a Dickensian movie?

Slate's Forrest Wickman makes a convincing case that the blockbuster movie is inspired by A Christmas Carol -- having previously shown just how much The Dark Knight Rises was inspired by A Tale of Two Cities. I like the way this man thinks.

(In related news, thanks to Christy for sending along another piece that traces the Dickens-Dark Knight connection.)

Angelou on Dickens

Poet and novelist Maya Angelou names A Tale of Two Cities one of her six favorite books. She writes movingly of her thoughts when reading it as a child: "Dickens, I could tell, would be a man who wouldn't curse me out and talk to me rudely."

By the Fire

A very strange thing happened to me the other morning: I woke up with an idea for a poem. That hasn't happened in years. But I rather liked this idea, so I went ahead and wrote the poem, and here it is (below the cut). It's based on A Tale of Two Cities, and the speaker is Mr. Lorry.

Dickens in the funnies

(By Francesco Marciuliano and Craig Macintosh, copyright King Features Syndicate, 2013.)

Easter follow-up

My friend Sherry at Semicolon Blog posts about Good Friday- and Easter-related imagery in A Tale of Two Cities.

A new 'Tale of Two Cities' movie?

It's a possibility, according to IndieWire! A script by David Farr is in development with BBC Films and Origin Pictures, though no director is attached yet. The script made the Brit List, a list of the best British scripts that haven't yet been produced.

So if this goes ahead, do you think there's any chance of anyone from my dreamcast making the cut??

More cinematic Dickens

The Next Movie site has a (fairly tongue-in-cheek) blog post about "The History of France, as Told through the Movies." The 1935 version of A Tale of Two Cities makes the list.

Picspam: When Sherlock met Dickens, part 2

Here are the rest of Christy's Dickens/Sherlock mashups!

Casting 'A Tale of Two Cities'

A LiveJournal friend asked me to name my dream cast for ATOTC, and I've just finished doing it. Go over here to see whom I picked!

More lists

On ShortList.com, Great Expectations (1946) is named one of the 40 best movie adaptations; at the Telegraph, the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities is named one of the 30 great opening lines in literature.