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Dylan Thomas al cine

Una escena de la película "The Edge of Love" que será estrenada a fines de junio. Fuente: the guardian

Así como Truman Capote fue el escritor elegido hace unos años por los productores de Hollywood para explotar al máximo su imagen conflictiva, ahora los productores londinenses han encontrado un filón en Dylan Thomas. Serán tres las producciones que lo tendrán como protagonista. La más light de todas (y probablemente la más exitosa) se titula The Edge of Love y trata sobre un triángulo amoroso (el slogan publicitario: "There are some things friends should never share"). Entre los actores protagonistas están las famosas Sienna Miller y Keyra Knigthel, además de Cillian Murphy como el "carismático" poeta. Por otra parte, la productora de Pierce Brosnan, Irish Dreamtime, preparan la película Caitlin, con Rosamund Pike y Miranda Richardson, sobre la esposa sufrida y musa del joven poeta. Y luego, Mick Davis hará una biopic basada en Under Milk Wood. John Keenan comenta en el blog de The Guardian el afán que tienen los cineastas de mostrar de manera maniquea y prejuiciosa a los poetas:
It is easy to see what attracts film-makers to Thomas - all that hard drinking, scrapping and sleeping around. Wallace Stevens' poetry makes Thomas look like the overblown talent he is, but there's no percentage in a film about a man who composed poems in his head while walking home from his day-job at the bank. Thomas was a prototype for self-destructive celebrity, and his wasted life is tailor-made for cinematic audiences who think that a feminine ending is a chick-flick device. When poetry meets the multiplex, the verse always comes off worse. That's why Sylvia depicted Ted Hughes and Syvia Plath as a kind of upscale Alfie Moon and Kat Slater, star-crossed lovers hurtling towards their tragic fate. It's why Total Eclipse featured a woefully miscast Leonardo Di Caprio as a buffed-up Arthur Rimbaud driving an already disturbed Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis) into a frenzy of lust and self-disgust. And it's why Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was portrayed as a cheery agony-uncle in Il Postino, dispensing tips on how to woo a woman with a neatly turned couplet. Neruda's own foolish infatuation - with Joseph Stalin - is glossed over. That's not to say you won't ever find poetry in the cinema. Just don't go looking for it in the lives of the poets.

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