The Trial - Orson Welles

So I’ve read the book, just watched the film but I’m not really interested in getting a T-shirt. That’s because I have enough t-shirts already and am quite fussy about the fit of t-shirts I choose to wear. I like to try them on before I buy them and I’m not sure I will come across a The Trial T-shirt in any of the shops that haven’t shut down yet. So even if eBay did offer me one, I probably wouldn’t buy it unless I could go and try it on first, but that’s not really what eBay is about. So my reasons for not wanting a T-shirt have little to do with my appreciation of The Trial whether referring to the novel or the screen adaptation.

I’m trying a new logic, its called Broderick’s logic after a great thinker. It is still in the process of being defined but as far as I understand so far it works thus. Make a statement already thought to be unlikely or untrue, if even granted any previous thought. Then prove it untrue through rhetoric. For instance; it is unlikely I’m going to buy a The Trial T-shirt. No one ever really thought I was going to buy a The Trial T-Shirt. I have suggested with rhetoric that I probably won’t buy a The Trial T-shirt.

Anyway replace the thought of a T-shirt at the front of your conscience with the thought of a film because that’s what I just watched and its more interesting than T-shirts; even if they have got The Trial written on them. For reviews of the film, there is an abundance of ‘em on this ol’ interweb thingy; http://www.rotten tomatoes.com has got loads! For me, Welles’ adaptation acted as a pleasant kind of study guide to the original novel; which has chronic positive resonance. It summarises the themes in a less gruelling format, that doesn’t require days of concentration. Typical of many films I suppose but as the credits role I didn’t feel like Welles had just robbed a piece of my soul and want to cry, “It wasn’t as good as the book!” as I, and probably yourself, have often done in the past at other adaptations.

Steven Hogg a.k.a X-Factors Eminem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1mQ_B3Q65c

may have inspired this;

(in a childish American accent)

Danny Boyle!

You made Slumdog Millionaire which was good.

But The Beach!

you don’t know shit about filmmaking!

Humanity is perpetually amazing!