{"id":11783,"date":"2011-02-23T14:54:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11783"},"modified":"2011-02-28T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:54:31","slug":"on-%e2%80%98barney%e2%80%99s-version%e2%80%99-a-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/on-%e2%80%98barney%e2%80%99s-version%e2%80%99-a-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"On \u2018Barney\u2019s Version\u2019: A Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar firsttext='<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11783\">A Confession<\/a><br \/>David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011'\nvar secondtext='<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11789\">The Canadian Jewish Experience<\/a><br \/>Richard J. 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Lewis | February 25, 2011'\nfunction writetext(what){\ndocument.getElementById('textarea').innerHTML=''+what+'';\n}\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><\/p>\n<table width=500 border=0px cellpadding=5px cellspacing=0px>\n<tr>\n<td valign=middle width=175><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11783\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/box1roll.jpg\" onmouseover=\"writetext(firsttext)\"><\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11789\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/box2roll.jpg\" onmouseover=\"writetext(secondtext)\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11796\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/box3roll.jpg\" onmouseover=\"writetext(thirdtext)\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11797\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/box4roll.jpg\" onmouseover=\"writetext(fourthtext)\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11799\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/box5roll.jpg\" onmouseover=\"writetext(fifthtext)\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11801\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/box6roll.jpg\" onmouseover=\"writetext(sixthtext)\"><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div id=\"textarea\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=11783\">A Confession<\/a> <br \/> David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_11895\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/richler3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/richler3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mordecai Richler\" width=\"298\" height=\"374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/richler3.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/richler3-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mordecai Richler.<\/p><\/div>Hi Richard,<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the best way to begin is to say that I have a vague recollection of standing in the very tiny kitchen of my very tiny studio apartment in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, circa 2000, and talking to you on the phone about a project you said you were in line to direct. I don\u2019t know if you remember this at all; it was a long time ago. I\u2019m convinced it happened, but feel free to correct me. However, before you correct me, I should tell you that, in my recollection, I was very impressed, and even jealous, to think that you would get to direct <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Barneys-Version-Mordecai-Richler\/dp\/0671028464\">Barney\u2019s Version<\/a><\/em>. I must have read the book by then, as any self-respecting Canadian would have. (The book published originally in 1997 or 1998, I think.) Mordecai Richler had been a literary hero of mine. He was a Canadian Jew, and he felt to me like the only Canadian Jew who had managed to write movingly, vibrantly, and humorously about Jews in Canada. (Today, I\u2019d revise that statement a little.) Now I was also a Canadian Jew, and I cultivated literary and cinematic ambitions. Basically, what I\u2019m saying is I thought: Who does this Richard Lewis think he is to make a movie from Richler\u2019s book? Yeah, he\u2019s a nice guy and he\u2019s done some directing, but seriously, what are his qualifications? I should be the one to do it!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have you know that I no longer feel this way.<\/p>\n<p>But what my little confession attests to\u2014other than the meanness of my own character\u2014is the seductive desire to turn books we love into movies. I don\u2019t even think the seduction is limited to people who work in movies. How often have you heard someone who, after having read a book, declares that it would make a great movie? There\u2019s an entire division of the film industry devoted to this quixotic practice, brilliantly dubbed Book-to-Film. But I wonder why it is we feel this compulsion? Why, after reading certain books, are we not satisfied to leave things where they are\u2014forever and exclusively on the page? Does it have to do with some refusal to accept that the story has ended and that our experience with it is finite? Or is it because, having fallen in love with the story, we want to participate in it, to become more intimately involved in its peculiar magic? So I suppose that\u2019s the general question, to which I\u2019d be curious to know your answer. And it leads to the more specific and relevant question, which is: what was it about <em>Barney\u2019s Version<\/em> that made you want to adapt it for the screen?<\/p>\n<p>Yrs,<\/p>\n<p>db<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Hi Richard, Maybe the best way to begin is to say that I have a vague recollection of standing in the very tiny kitchen of my very tiny studio apartment in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, circa 2000, and talking to you on the phone about a project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1900],"tags":[1084,1905,1906,1901,1904,1903,202,1902],"class_list":["post-11783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondence","tag-adaptation","tag-barneys-version","tag-book","tag-david-bezmozgis","tag-e-mail","tag-epistolary-exchange","tag-movie","tag-richard-j-lewis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On \u2018Barney\u2019s Version\u2019: A Confession by David Bezmozgis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 23, 2011 \u2013 A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Hi Richard, Maybe the best way to begin is to say that I have a vague recollection of standing in the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/on-\u2018barney\u2019s-version\u2019-a-confession\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On \u2018Barney\u2019s Version\u2019: A Confession by David Bezmozgis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"February 23, 2011 \u2013 A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Hi Richard, Maybe the best way to begin is to say that I have a vague recollection of standing in the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/on-\u2018barney\u2019s-version\u2019-a-confession\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-02-23T19:54:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-02-28T17:54:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/box1roll.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David Bezmozgis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David Bezmozgis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/on-%e2%80%98barney%e2%80%99s-version%e2%80%99-a-confession\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/on-%e2%80%98barney%e2%80%99s-version%e2%80%99-a-confession\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"David Bezmozgis\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/423d8a8649815cabe525122853c224de\"},\"headline\":\"On \u2018Barney\u2019s Version\u2019: A Confession\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-02-23T19:54:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-02-28T17:54:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/on-%e2%80%98barney%e2%80%99s-version%e2%80%99-a-confession\/\"},\"wordCount\":483,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/on-%e2%80%98barney%e2%80%99s-version%e2%80%99-a-confession\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/box1roll.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"adaptation\",\"Barney's Version\",\"book\",\"David Bezmozgis\",\"e-mail\",\"epistolary exchange\",\"movie\",\"Richard J. 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