North American actor Tommy Lee Jones to direct Hemingway's Islands in the Gulf

In times when real heroes do not convince because life destroys them in their moral composition and comics from the sixties invades the screen with their iron men, Spiderman, stone man and so on in a long chain of muscular alloys, Tommy Lee Jones announced that he will direct Islands in the Gulf, that novel sent by Hemingway to a safe because it didn't seemed convincing to him, and which was, nonetheless an immediate success when it was published (1970) after his death. The novel saw a mediocre screen adaptation (Franklin J. Schaffner) during the seventies, among other things, because the script writers eliminated important things that related it to Cuba and simplified other ones, adding elements which were not in the original book. It deserves then a second shot, if the announcement that it will be a thriller does not take away importance to the human categories that come out of the character of the painter Thomas Hudson, who like other characters from the novel writer, its alter ego of him. Those who read the novel shall remember that it is structured in three parts and it tells the life of the painter, who lived from the 1930's onwards in the Bimini Islands and afterwards in Cuba, where he participated with his yacht, specially armored, in the hunt for a Nazi submarine to the north of Camagey. Even though the novel ends up being an adventure story during World War II and the painter becomes a typical hero who runs over the deck of his ship and shoots against the Germans, the passages where he narrates the relationship of the painter with his three children who visit him in Bimini have an unforgettable sentimental meaning. Tommy Lee Jones has recently given life in the big screen to two characters that are related to the traditional concept of the American hero, which have been destroyed at a fast pace in the screen after September 11, 2001, or at the very least because they have been given their space to the comics of invincible supermen. In the Valley of the Shadows the actors plays a former military man who sees with horror, after the death of his son in Iraq, how moral degradation has left the country without true heroes. In No country for old Men, which has also been screened in the cinemas and which is soon to pass on to television, he is an already tired sheriff on his way to retirement who reflect on a violence politic, which together with drugs and easy money, was created in his country and grew rapidly and will end up by extending a devastating cover, among other things, because the former heroes play now for the other team. That may have been the source for that decision of jumping back .to the thirties, to the forties - and to look in the purity of Hemingway's heroes the inspiration for what the country today .at least in real life- is unable to produce.

Cubarte News News posted on 5/29/2008 2:08:44 PM

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