{"id":289006,"date":"2012-01-27T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/01\/27\/a-thousand-morons-the-movie-version\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:45","slug":"a-thousand-morons-the-movie-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/01\/27\/a-thousand-morons-the-movie-version\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Morons: The Movie Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not very often that an Open Letter book is turned into a movie (in fact, aside from Duras&#8217;s <em>The Sailor from Gibraltar<\/em> and Ilf &amp; Petrov&#8217;s <em>The Golden Calf<\/em> [which was actually made into <em>three<\/em> different movies] I don&#8217;t think any of our titles have become films), so it&#8217;s really exciting to find out about about this version of Quim Monzo&#8217;s <em>A Thousand Morons<\/em> (coming out in fall 2012):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EqqCcKDj5DM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no <span class=\"caps\">IMDB<\/span> listing for this movie, but it was part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siff.net\/cinema\/detail.aspx?id=44538&amp;FID=206&amp;rid=1778\">Seattle International Film Festival,<\/a> which described it as such:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dropped forks, high rise plunges, overzealous donators, and a fiercely liberated Virgin Mary are just a few of the subjects covered in director Ventura Pons\u2019 masterfully random, occasionally interlocking collection of fifteen vignettes, delivered at a rapid-fire, pin-wheeling pace. Split into three parts and featuring a gaggle of Spanish stars, the film first delivers a variously blistering and tender take on modern foibles and breaches of etiquette, before moving on to a bawdy reexamination of classic myths and parables, all rendered in a delightfully chintzy silent film fashion. The final section, concerning a screenwriter\u2019s exasperated relationship with his headstrong parents, finishes things off in fine form, with one last caustic sting in the tail. Moving with breathtaking assurance, <span class=\"caps\">SIFF<\/span> favorite Pons (<em>Life on the Edge<\/em>, <em>Forasters<\/em>, <em>Drifting<\/em>) quick draws between savage black comedy and unexpected pathos to deliver an exhilarating and dazzlingly modulated ride. Everyone who sees it will have a different favorite part.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know exactly how this works, but hopefully someone will pick this up and distribute it across the U.S. . . . and maybe even here in Rochester. I&#8217;d love to see how Monzo&#8217;s wacky stories and viewpoint is converted to the screen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/23-monzo#guadalajara\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/754.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not very often that an Open Letter book is turned into a movie (in fact, aside from Duras&#8217;s The Sailor from Gibraltar and Ilf &amp; Petrov&#8217;s The Golden Calf [which was actually made into three different movies] I don&#8217;t think any of our titles have become films), so it&#8217;s really exciting to find out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[45186,366,3056,45176],"class_list":["post-289006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-a-thousand-morons","tag-catalan-literature","tag-quim-monzo","tag-ventura-pons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341856,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289006\/revisions\/341856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}