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Pale Fire in the Oscar-nominated film "Her"
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Michael Lavey pointed out to me off-list that the American paperback edition of Pale Fire features in the currently Oscar-nominated film Her (2013).
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as Pale Fire is concerned with the incomprehensibility of consciousness after death to those still living, Her is concerned with the incomprehensibility of superhuman intelligence (and emotion) to the merely human. I don't think it's a meaningless coincidence that the only book the audience sees in the movie (aside from the main character's own published book of letters) is Pale Fire.
Brian Boyd
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He writes:
as Pale Fire is concerned with the incomprehensibility of consciousness after death to those still living, Her is concerned with the incomprehensibility of superhuman intelligence (and emotion) to the merely human. I don't think it's a meaningless coincidence that the only book the audience sees in the movie (aside from the main character's own published book of letters) is Pale Fire.
Brian Boyd
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[cid:74F7C9B9-F9C3-4181-A4B4-B499405D414E]
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