Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for June 09, 2023

Not waiting for Godot anymore.

I had to read that book in High School. Then when PBS came out with a version of the play, I had to watch that. (The book was better.)

I have successfully managed to avoid both play and book my whole life.

They told him “Godot hell!”

Curiously, movie sequels almost never get as good a rating as the original. Guess it’s because directors see the need to outdo all the effects of the first, and so go overboard in adding and usually illogical new events.

Never make a sequel to an absurdist comedy; it doesn’t make sense. :)

“I’m so tired, tired of waiting, tired of waiting for Godot.”

I’ll just wait. At home. Hopefully there’ll be some wine left.

First off, Waiting for Godot is a play, not a ‘book’, and any film would have been a version of this, perhaps even just a recording of a performance. Plus, Becket’s estate is rabid about the integrity of the original and about maintaining direct and strenuous control over any use or performance and doesn’t, without intense negotiation, allow adaptations. But, of course, being a play, in some senses every performance is an adaptation, taken to philosophical and aesthetic depths. And, yes, it’s a masterpiece of theatre and any performance is well worth your time.

I am pretty sure the more action packed sequel would be called Searching for Godot, followed by Godot 3: The Revenge. Then Didi and Gogo Origins, and a Disney version told from the point of view of Pozzo as a misunderstood good guy.