vale David Lange

[lederhosen]

I was too young to follow his political career at the time, but David Lange seemed like a good sort of fellow. An incident about a week ago endeared him to me: in failing health, Lange was in hospital, due to have his leg amputated because of complications from diabetes. He was frail enough that the medical team were unwilling to put him under; instead, they gave him a local anaesthetic and went to work. About forty minutes into the procedure, he looked up at the surgeon and asked "Doctor, are you sure you've got the right leg?"

Unrelated: Have been watching the BBC Day of the Triffids, which is v. good (and reminded me just how much of 28 Days Later it inspired). As always, I'm impressed by how little John Wyndham's novels have dated; it's hard to believe DotT was written more than fifty years ago. I think the key to this is that Wyndham's novels are driven by people, rather than technology, and people haven't changed nearly as much. I'd *love* to see a movie of The Kraken Wakes, but I doubt anybody would do it; it lacks the climactic battle at the end that Hollywood seems to need.

Anyway, I digress; what I want to know is, is that Sinead O'Connor singing partway through the second episode? It sounds awfully like her, but I can't find any information either way.

Comments

[hacked2death.livejournal.com]

Night Of The Triffids isn't that bad of a sequel, if you get by the fact that it's not made by the original author...

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

_Triffids_ and especially _Kraken_ are still two of my favourite books. _Triffids_ always reminds me of _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ filmically, though, in particular the 70s movie. I still think that triangular building (was that in Chicago? -- something about it being owned by the production company, I think, which was the reason for it showing up as the symbol for ultimate evil) is scary as hell.

[jesusandrew.livejournal.com]

With the better special effects available for TV shows these days, The Kraken Wakes might well make a decent UK miniseries.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Could do, at that. And IIRC, it shouldn't be too FX-heavy; aside from exploding boats and shooting stars, which I'm guessing are easy enough to do these days, the only major FX scene I can think of would be the sea-tank attack. Keeping the baddies invisible has its advantages :-)