Etgar Keret’s “HaKeytena Shel Kneller” (Kneller’s Happy Campers) has been made into a movie that’s getting decent reviews. They took out a lot of the explicit refrerences to Israeli stuff, but it has the potential to be almost as twisted as a Keret story (really you should just read the novella, though.)
Wristcutters does more than remove the specific Israeliness of the characters – it also tacks on a happy ending, which to me somewhat misses the point of Keret’s story. (Incidentally, there was also a fantastic comix adaptation that Keret did with Asaf Hanukkah called Pizzeria Kamekazi, originally serialized in “Bipolar” but now available in paperback.)
In response to the DIY Tikkun lik, I would recommend Adat Shalom’s Scroll Scraper ( http://scrollscraper.adashalom.net/ ) as a much clearer and easier site.
I couldn’t get the Tikkun generator to work– has anyone else tried it?
Wristcutters does more than remove the specific Israeliness of the characters – it also tacks on a happy ending, which to me somewhat misses the point of Keret’s story. (Incidentally, there was also a fantastic comix adaptation that Keret did with Asaf Hanukkah called Pizzeria Kamekazi, originally serialized in “Bipolar” but now available in paperback.)
A happy ending?! Oh, come on. That just ain’t right.
In response to the DIY Tikkun lik, I would recommend Adat Shalom’s Scroll Scraper ( http://scrollscraper.adashalom.net/ ) as a much clearer and easier site.
A happy end makes a lot of sense. I’m Keret is delighted to see that his novella has turned into a proper american movie (ie happy ending…)