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The story concerns a young reporter named James Cardiff who finds himself drawn to Summerton, Arizona, a relic in the desert, or perhaps a mirage, where he meets and falls in love with Nefertiti, the Egyptian royal - albeit inspired by Katherine Hepburn. A novella published in the last decade of his life, Somewhere a Band Is Playing is perhaps the most joyous and surreal example of what I would call the Ray Bradbury Sentimental Express. These summer time towns are rife with a nostalgia that blossoms into a brand new moment of sun dappled porches, of old folks and lemonade, and in the case of Dandelion Wine, of the sound of summer running. Many of BradburyвЂ™s finest stories offer us a surreal look into an American past few of us lived. 'Somewhere A Band Is Playing' (collected in Now And Forever)

Whether as a period piece in early Suburban America or transplanted to post 9/11 hysteria, itвЂ™s a story thatвЂ™s all set to be a tight 90 minute bot-boiler.Д«onus/Alternate take: 'TomorrowвЂ™s Child', about a woman who births a baby whose physical form is split between dimensions, and thus, appears as a blue pyramid with tentacles in our reality. While Roman PolanskiвЂ™s RosemaryвЂ™s Baby may spring to mind as a flick that features a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown, 'The Small Assassin' isnвЂ™t concerned with the satanic or supernatural, and is instead a cooly fascinating study on the psychology of parenting, or lack of such an ability.

The premise is simple: A mother gives birth to a baby she is convinced has a fully developed adult brain, and is trying to murder she and her husband. No doubt a classic even casual readers will know, 'The Small Assassin' taps into the horrors of childbirth and child rearing like few other twisted tales out there. 'The Small Assassin' (collected in The October Country)

FEVER DREAM RAY BRADBURY THEATER MOVIE

Whether the following ten stories just offer the seed of an idea for a movie or are already a whole damn flick straight off the page, they all have the potential to be great cinema. Many of them go one step further than that, and really, truly feel like a movie is being projected straight into your mindвЂ™s eye. The majority of Bradbury stories, however sweetly poetic and sentimental, do in fact read like screenplays. There are few authors who can conjure such clear and precise imagery with the simplest of language. The author himself used to tell a story about how when Sam Peckinpah was set to adapt the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes into a film, the way he was going to do it was вЂњrip the pages out of the book, stuff them in the camera and shoot the damn thing!вЂќ And itвЂ™s true. And yet Bradbury is a writer whose work immediately feels cinematic. I think most Bradbury fans will agree that, at best, these films have, thus far, been interesting footnotes to the original written works. But itвЂ™s hard to argue that the handful that have been made (Rod SteigerвЂ™s The Illustrated Man) are good adaptations (Francois TruffautвЂ™s Fahrenheit 451), or even all around decent films (the abominable A Sound Of Thunder). itвЂ™s not like there have been a lack of motion picture adaptations of Ray Bradbury stories.

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