Talk:Alex Garland

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Re "better description"

Ahem. User:Stumason, I'm not sure how visceral (Having to do with the viscera, which are the soft internal organs of the body, including the lungs, the heart, and the organs of the digestive, excretory, reproductive, and circulatory systems.) is a better description of something which sort of becomes spmething else than VIRTUAL. I think this is somewhat more appropriate. User:Megawattbulbman 15:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

That's the scientific definition. As with a lot of words in the english language, it has taken on a literary meaning too:

1. Instinctual: proceeding from instinct rather than from reasoned thinking

2. Emotional: characterized by or showing basic emotions

Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 15:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm... I'm literature undergrad and I've never seen it used in this context before. Where did you find these definitions? Megawattbulbman 15:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Check out [1] or [2]. Visceral is a word often used to describe books like Lord of the Flies and The Beach. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 16:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Stop press, just saw it in a TV guide describing some programme... You're right, it is an appropriate description. Sorry!

I have heard that a theatre company called "We Could Be Kings" have been given the rights to adapt The Coma by Alex Garland into a stage play. It is going to debut for the first time ever at The Pleasance for The Edinburgh Festival this year. Check it out!

Rewrote first paragraph to remove possible copyright violation

I have rewritten the first paragraph and the start of the second paragraph. The following text appears to have been lifted from http://www.spikemagazine.com/0599alexgarland.php

Alex Garland (born 1970) is a British novelist, the son of the well-known and respected political cartoonist, Nick Garland. With a resolutely middle-class and intellectual background, he attended University College School, Hampstead and later graduated from Manchester University with a degree in History of Art. He was planning on following in his father's footsteps before he realized: "There aren't many openings for a cartoonist." Instead, he turned his attention to fiction, and started writing The Beach when he was just 23, drawing on his many experiences of travelling. He first went to India when he was 17 on a school trip, and he now makes several visits to South East Asia per year.

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Claudine (talk) 00:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Halo Film Involvement

Wasn't there info on this page about his involvement in the Halo film? If not, there should be. - Gerald

Problem in Filmography section

My work seem to either droop over the page or disappear completely. Can somebody help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martin287 (talk • contribs) 09:26, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Themes and influences

This section is ponderously and clumsily written in places. Anyone feel like fixing it? Notreallydavid (talk) 02:12, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Sunshine movie link redirects to "Sunlight"

It is redirecting it to a page on sunlight due to the similarity in words instead of to the movie, linked here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)

I don't know how to fix this exactly, the only thing showing is Sunshine and I don't want to mess anything up. Help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azeotrope288391 (talk • contribs) 04:46, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Next film

It has been reveled that Garland is currently working on an adaption of Annihilation so I added a paragraph to the screenplays section. SpiritedMichelle (talk) 19:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Cult classic?

The Beach was initially met with positive reviews, and with a spreading word of mouth response the novel grew into a cult classic.

That reads as if "cult classic" is a synonym for "best seller". Well, that's what the term is often loosely used to mean these days; anything that sells well is immediately branded a "cult classic". But is that what we actually mean here? There's more to a cult classic than something that sells a lot of copies. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:42, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Clair Noto's The Tourist?

It says on the entry that Garland may possibly direct The Tourist (infamous unproduced script by Clair Noto), but it's unsourced and I can't find anything about it in a quick Google search. Anybody know anything? If not I'm gonna nix it from the page. PcPrincipal (talk) 21:33, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

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28 Years Later

They announced a possible 28 Years Later movie/trilogy. This should maybe be added? https://www.ign.com/articles/28-years-later-sequel Ansarya (talk) 08:28, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Civil War

Not happy that this English lad, is writing about a very sensitive issue. I think this is incendiary and inflammatory.. and I haven't ever seen the movie! 2600:1702:3160:A470:3190:FE67:C2CE:69DB (talk) 22:08, 27 March 2024 (UTC)