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A Single Man
2009 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Tom Ford
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.
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The Sixties where the time!
in the office: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/140408135905-04-madmen.jpg?q=w_3888,h_2592,x_0,y_0,c_fill/w_1316/f_webp
in university: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1315981/mediaviewer/rm1549045248/
in airplanes: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/150325130240-03-mad-men-season-7.jpg?q=w_3596,h_2023,x_0,y_0,c_fill/w_1316/f_webp
I think A Single Man is a good example of an ok to good book being made into a great film.
I can't narrow it down to one (it's like trying to pick a favorite binary message format), but the best I can do:
A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood. A beautifully somber story of a gay man dealing with loss in the 60's. When I read it as a kid, it helped deal with the sense of alienation I was feeling during my adolescence. Also the movie a few years back (while ending fairly different from the book), was awesome.
The Big Sleep - Chandler. Literary people all seem to prefer Hammett to Chandler, but for my money there's never been better prose written before or since. "Dead men are heavier than broken hearts" and "I never saw any of them again - except the cops. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them." are two of my favorite sentences of all time.
Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas. It's technically an autobiography, but I read it as a novel. More alienation (this time in 1970's Cuba), but written amazingly well (even the English translation).
Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary. I'm not embarrassed to list a kids book as one of my favorite novels (considering how many people on here I'm sure loved Harry Potter). It's a story about a kid who's dad left him, and it's written as a series of one-sided letters to an author (the titular Mr. Henshaw). I re-read it about twice a year (it's a short book).
> When in doubt, copy everything from Tom Ford's A Single Man movie.
Great; now I can look forward to male hackers wearing bright white angora sweaters everywhere.
Don't buy anything that says anything on it. Perhaps a small Lacoste badge logo or something but no messages. Don't wear pink and yellow. When in doubt, copy everything from Tom Ford's A Single Man movie. And it's more important to look fit then wear the right fit, although both are important to look good.