Flatland the Movie?

[neotoma]

Did anyone know that there is a movie version of Flatland coming out?

Let me repeat -- a movie version of Flatland, a fable about geometry? A movie version with Martin Sheen doing the voice of the square?

Can we say 'score!'?

Comments

[sanj.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

We are so going to see this, even if we have to go to the AFI to catch it.

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah!! Hee.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Yeah, MATH!

[tricksterquinn.livejournal.com]

DUDE!

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[anjenue.livejournal.com]

OMG I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED!!!!!!

Ahem. Thank you for the heads up! This is one of my favourite books of all time.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I noticed that the women aren't just lines anymore, which is frankly just as well because as much as I love Flatland, you can tell it is a Victorian novel.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Isn't he satirizing the role of women in his society, though, rather than affirming it?

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

his = the author's
society = Victorian Britain

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD! That rocks!

*has just watched trailer* Oh, but...they have to show, god, I hope they show how it LOOKS for a inhabitant of Flatland, I hope they get that across! That all they see is a line on which segments of lines enter and exit their field of vision...

Hee hee, and that End Title music from A Series of Unfortunate Events is getting LOTS of play, these days. I knew as soon as I heard it back when I saw ASoUE that it was a terrific moody piece.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure HOW you'd show how it looks to an inhabitant of Flatland in any way that makes sense.

But the sphere is VERY cool looking, especially when it is talking to square.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

But...but I can visualize it! All you get to visualize is a line, as if you were looking at the horizon but there's only the horizon, see, and all you see of other objects are lines on that line. Lines grow into existence from a point as they approach, and shrink back to that point as they pass and go out of my range of vision. They have to show that, too, in the film!

[axiom_of_stripe]

...you mean not everybody's school showed this version of it every year?