Society and class, the upper echelon of which is just as out of reach for Gatsby as the green light. Alan Glynn: I see what you mean, and I suppose it’s true. What I really mean is that if the book wasn’t any good in the first place, I doubt that it would have been pursued as tenaciously as it was, over such a long period of time. Limitless is based on the novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn. The film is directed by Neil Burger, and is based on a screenplay by Leslie Dixon, who had acquired the rights to the source material. Dixon wrote the adapted screenplay for less than her regular price in exchange for being made one of the film's producers. [4] Fellow producer Scott Kroopf and she approached Burger to direct the film, at the time titled The Dark Fields. For Burger, who had written and directed his previous three films, the collaboration was his first foray solely as director. [5] With Universal Pictures developing the project, Shia LaBeouf was announced in April 2008 to be cast as the film's star. [4]

Although physically bounded by the width of the bay, the light is described as impossibly small ("minute" means "tiny enough to be almost insignificant") and confusingly distant.

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The whole protracted, stop-start, ten-year thing, though, was a bit of a bummer, even from the remove I was at. I don’t know how people can work in the movie industry and stay sane. And the answer to that, of course, is that they probably don’t.

You can't have good times without the bad either. Ever. Not in Nature, Life forces/forms, or Economics. Not even in space. Every positive has a void or negative opposed that defines its own very nature. It’s just a pity they had to change it in the first place. The marketing folks like to think of the testing they do as an exact science, but I think it’s more like William Goldman territory—no one knows anything. Understand, a 1991 novelette by Ted Chiang, nominated for the 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and won the 1992 Asimov's Reader Poll. [7] gets into debt with a loan shark (which is totally a braindead thing, besides, he should have repaid that stuff right away, not waited for God knows what). Again, maybe everything will work out. Maybe utopia is just around the corner – Ray Kurzweil pegs 2045 as the year we will multiply our intelligence a billionfold by linking wirelessly from our brains to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud.

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During the course of the novel, Gatsby's dream is revealed to be delusional and unrealizable, so the symbolic meaning behind the green light collapses. Unless you’re in the major leagues, your books generally don’t get advertised in a mainstream way. And suddenly I was watching a tv spot for the Limitless movie, playing during the Super Bowl. It was sort of a collateral ad for the book, but it was pretty extraordinary. However, during the novel, Gatsby's dream is revealed to be the delusional conviction that he could ignore five years of events and Daisy's own personality and inner life to get what he wants. With this disappointment, the symbolic meaning behind the green light collapses. Daisy is not a magically perfect creature, but instead a fallible and deeply flawed person. The love Gatsby feels for her can only be played out as a secretive and morally questionable affair. And the green light loses its "enchanted" qualities and instead is revealed to be the not particularly reliable indicator that it actually is (suddenly, it becomes invisible in the fog). I saw this movie because the main character was a writer, burnt out and clueless. As a writer myself I can say I know the feeling. Anyway, I wasn't too thrilled about watching the movie because Bradley Cooper was the lead actor. It's not that I don't think he's any good, but rather he played the role of creep in 'Wedding Crashers' so well that whenever I saw him in another role I couldn't shake the character he played in Wedding Crashers. Well, that has all been erased. Not only did Cooper do a good job in the movie version, I loved it so much I decided to read the book the movie was based on. Fortunately, the movie follows the book very much, which I like. Alan Glynn: Sure, a script is a big step closer to a movie, assuming you or someone you’re working with has a clear idea of what’s possible and practical and it has a real chance of being made. Otherwise you’re working in a vacuum.