Thanks for watching, seriously, you guys are awesome. Even if the gods arent good as such, they are plausibly good for something. Unfortunately, in reading the book, i felt as though the author had assembled all of the horses for the kentucky derby, then put them on the indy 500 speedway and said, okay, go. Everything you need to know about gods behaving badly. The god of the old testament has a bad reputation, but is he really angry, sexist and racist. Obsolete gods withering away after their time has passed. Also, i do believe everyone is entitled to several bad hair days, bad lighting, and a. Im an avid fan of greek mythology, and this book starts out with a lot of promise. When production saw what i could achieve in autodesk flame, i was asked to create the entire 3minute space flythrough comprising the films opening title sequence, almost entirely. With alicia silverstone, sharon stone, kathleen turner, christopher walken. Gods behaving badly marc turtletaub a major supplier of sundance films little miss sunshine, sherrybaby, sunshine cleaning and our idiot brother over the years as a producer at big beach, if there is a venue where marc turtletaub should show off his filmmaker it would be in the condo hills of park city. A tree meets a dog walker at the start of gods behaving badly, marie phillipss flossy, highconcept comic novel.
Yet this bad behavior isnt necessarily bad behavior for a god. Their lives are perfectly ordinary until several ancient greek gods, bored and ill at ease because they are losing. The greek gods always behaved badly, but in producer marc turtletaubs remarkably feeble helming debut, theyre merely insipid, despite a heavensent cast grossly squandered on the kind of. With what little powers they have left they are like old royalty, full of themselves but barely scraping by. Gods behaving badly is a novel by the british author marie phillips. For businessexclusive pricing, quantity discounts and downloadable vat invoices. I was brought onto this project initially to design and animate type. The film is about a young mortal couple alicia silverstone and ebon mossbachrach who encounter a group of greek gods living in new. Buy this product and stream 90 days of amazon music. Oceny, recenzje, obsada, dyskusje wiadomosci, zwiastuny, ciekawostki oraz galeria.
Gods behaving badly had an awesome concept, an okay delivery, and a flat ending. Such deference, a holdover perhaps from the days of the hays code, is entirely lacking in marie phillipss first novel, gods behaving badly, in which the 12 major deities of ancient greece. Gods behaving badly by marie phillips librarything. Behaving badly 2014 informacje o filmie w bazie filmweb. Yes, the twelve gods of olympus are alive and well in the twentyfirst century, but they are crammed together in a london townhouseand none too happy about it. Takes place in a world where the gods and goddesses of greek mythology live in presentday new york city. Marie phillips debut novel gods behaving badly is quite a feat. Gods behaving badly gods behaving badly audiobook, by marie phillips. It tells the story of what would happen if all the former gods were forgotten and lived amongst mortals.
Kate and neil are a charming couple who live in contemporary new york city. Get gods behaving badly dvd and bluray release date and movie stats. Walton says in an epigraph that apollo and athene come straight out of homer. There is a time for sitting in front of the screen trying to push on through, but there is also a time for going and doing some laundry. She studied anthropology and documentary making, and worked as a tv researcher for several years. By any philosophic standards, he starts by behaving badly, and ends by behaving worse. A novel, by marie phillips read by tom sellwood abridged audiobook. Marie phillipsgods behaving badlyauthor interview duration. Gods behaving badly finds a motley crew of olympians living together in considerable squalor in london, in a house they havent maintained too well since they moved in back in 1665. When gods do so, because it is petty and incongruous, it can be comic as well. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading gods behaving badly.
Gods behaving badly by marie phillips about the book being a greek god is not all it once was. Gods behaving badly is in completed starring christopher walken, john turturro, alicia silverstone, ebon mossbachrach. Marie phillips, author of gods behaving badly and the table of less valued knights recently featured on a cultured vultures recommendation list for excellent first time novels by. The broad strokes of the plot feel like they could easily fit in with the classic myths if not for their new setting. Gods behaving badly book two by mickey ann nook book. Artemis earns some money walking dogs, aphrodite is doing phone sex, eros. Gods behaving badly opening film title sequence on vimeo. Greek gods living in modernday new york intervene in the lives of a young couple. The film is the featurelength directorial debut of marc turtletaub, who is better known as a film producer.
Gods behaving badly audiobook abridged listen instantly. The real joke in gods behaving badly is the fact that it recruits a bunch of actors who are how to put it. More recently she has worked as an independent bookseller while writing gods behaving badly. The novel is a sheer delight and has cured me of my book reading blues. More recently she has worked as an independent bookseller whilst writing gods behaving badly. Set in london, it tells the tale of the twelve gods of mount olympus living in a rundown flat as their powers wane. Since their powers are waning and they must save their reserves for truly important work, they cant conjure up money for normal.
Extract from gods behaving badly by marie phillips available in bookshops october, 2007 isbn. Selena gomezs film behaving badly has a zero percent rating on rotten tomatoes splash news tv. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. In gods behaving badly, though, marie phillips gets some mileage out of this concept by putting the greek gods in modern london. Gods behaving badly is a great book, bringing to life a bunch of gods reluctantly sharing a house in london. Gods behaving badly by marie phillips overdrive rakuten.
While working at look effects, jordan blit and i animated these shots of cerberus in grand central station. Its 21st century england, and the greek gods and goddesses of olympus are living together in a house in londons east end. Theres artemis, goddess of hunting, now a dog walker. It was selected for the atlantics 1book140 twitter book clubs book of the month for august 2011.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A lot of the iliad is about men and gods behaving badly. Gods behaving badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original first novel that satisfies the head and the heart. Artemis as a dogwalker, apollo as a tv psychic, aphrodite as a.
Gods behaving badly behind the scenes on set nyc by sweetannie4u. Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, now a phone sex operator. Deemed by hollywood as a highconcept novel, and already optioned by ben stillers red hour films for a comedy series, it has. Filmografia, nagrody, biografia, wiadomosci, ciekawostki. Gods behaving badly is a 20 film adaptation of marie phillips satire novel, gods behaving badly. Differences in perceptions of divine violence in mythologies of the ancient near east most people who follow one of the major contemporary religions, particularly in the abrahamic traditions, adhere to a very specific set of beliefs concerning the types of. There is a time for sitting in front of the screen trying to push on through, butmore heres something nobody told me. This is the premise for gods behaving badly by marie philips. The greek gods inadvertently wreak havoc on the mortal world in this hilarious debut novel set in modernday london.