Willian “Falkner”Had dropped

Lost his fiancée to another man

Lack of height (5’ 5” = 1,65 cm )

Perfected a fake accentfalsified lettersPicked up pilot’s wingsAffected a limp Claimed he had been wounded in a dogfiht

pilot’s wings

Undertook a series of jobs throughout his life to make ends meet:

-1921 Boohstore New York-Postmaster University of Mississippi trash

-1926 shared a garret New Orleans French Quarter withWilliam Spratling

Enterteinement: leaning out of a window with BB gunshooting passers-by in the buttocks(keep a score)

garret

BB gun

The title of the novel is taken from Macbeth's soliloquy in act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth:

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."

Yoknapatawpha County

1931

rape

corncob

Controversial: includes horrific rape of Temple Drake by The vicious criminal Popeye using a corncob

came up toPuts himself in his books

Stream-of-conciousness

Write longhand in pencil for up to 13 hoursSmall barely legible handwriting + tape his work up

James Joyce

Virginia Woolf

if he left this till next morning he would not be able to read his own handwriting

Carl Gable

Howard Hawks

Ernest Hemingway

To butt inTo blurt outFor a livingWitheringTo slipNever forgive erstwhile friend

1949 Nobel prize awarded

1962 turned down an invitation from President to a dinner

Scriptwtiter

Faulkner’s Scriptwtiting career hinges around the relationship with the director Howard Hawks,Employed him to ensure he has an income.

Through Hawks, Faulkner’s name isassociated whitSome of the classic movies of the history of cinema

The Road to Glory (1936) Howard Hawks

In 1916, somewhere in the front in France in World War I, the 5th Company in the 2nd Battalion of the 39th Regiment created by Napoleon Bonaparte and leaded by the tough Captain Paul La Roche receives among the replacements, Lieutenant Michel Denet and private Moran. When Lt. Denet meets the nurse Monique La Coste, who is Capt. La Roche's mistress but he doe not know, they fall in love for each other. When Capt. La Roche sees the old Pvt. Moran in his inspection, he identifies his father using a fake identity. Meanwhile, the 39th Regiment receives order to go to the trenches, attack the German lines and install a telephone in the front to guide the artillery.

Gunga Din (1939) George Stevens

In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

waterbearer

Hawks was originaly going to directFaulkner played a large part in the film inceptionClassic comical adventure buddy movielampoon

Air Force (1943) El bombardero heroico Howard Hawks

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

The classic war film about Its abtijapanese racism is understableEven thougth it jars

To Have and Have Not ("Tener y no tener", 1944) Howard Hawks

Expatriate American Harry Morgan helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.

Title and main character remain only Harry Morgan (Bogart’scharacter) is married with kids in Hemingway’s novel

The Southerner ("El hombre del sur", 1945) Jean Renoir

The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.

Gave him more pleasure than any of his other Hollywood projectsThe remark is unkind considering all the support Hawks had given to him

The Big Sleep ("El sueño eterno", 1946) Howard Hawks

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

Based on Raymond Chandler’s detective novelOne of the greatest detective movies ever madeWith sexual electricity between B and B. reaching fever pitchwho killed the chauffeur ? Figure it out

Land of the Pharaons ("Tierra de faraones", 1955) Howard Hawks

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to insure the impregnability of tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

Faulkner fiction on film

Today We Live ("Vivamos hoy") Howard Hawks, 1933

The two lovers are living together and are not married as they hesitantly explain to her brother. They had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait." It's an important plot point as it drives Cooper's actions when he discovers that Crawford and Young are living in sin

Hawks deserves credit fot ensuring he has work as scriptCommend to turn self stories into a movie-set in WWI with Crawford caught between her love for a seaman and a airmanAsapted from short story Turn About (in the looset sense)

Intruder in the dust (1954) Clarence Brown,

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.

Local community Lynch-mobMilestone in social conscienceSet in Faulkner’s home townOxford, MississippiWithout stars ( a recipe for disaster at the box office)

The Tarnished Angels Douglas Sirk (1957)

Ángeles sin brillo

Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.

1936 Hans Detlef Sierck Pylon turned down flat20 years laterWord War I ace had been left to scrape a living

risking his life barnstormingHr is not happy despite being following aroundA bomshell of a wife and a loyal mechanichBased on Dean Faulkner’s live

Accused barn burner and con man Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

The Long, Hot Summer Martin Ritt (1958)

blockbusterStars Paul Newman, Joan Woodward, Lee Remick, Orson Wells and Angela LansburyLaunched Newman to stardom as the drifterBased on The Hamlet with Barn burning and Spotted horses1986 Remake for TV with Stuart Cooper and Don Johnson

The Sound and the Fury Martin Ritt. (1959)

Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Bengy is child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers". Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family, and Quentin, who was abandoned at birth by Caddy, have the fire and the fury needed to put the family back on its feet again.

- The Story of Temple Drake", ("Secuestro", 1932) Stephen Roberts

Sanctuary 1961 Tony Richardson with Lee Remick and Ives Montand

Both based on Sanctuary

The reivers, 1969 Mark Rydell, with Steve McQueen and Sharon Farrell.

An old man looks back 60 years to a road trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of age. Lucius's grandfather gets the first automobile in the area, a bright yellow Winton Flyer. While he's away, the plantation handyman, Boon Hogganbeck, conspires to borrow the car, taking Lucius with him. Stowed away is Ned, a mulatto and Lucius's putative cousin. The three head for Memphis, where Boon's sweetheart works in a whorehouse, where Ned trades the car for a racehorse, and where Lucius discovers the world of adults - from racism and vice to possibilities for honor and courage. Is there redemption for reivers, rascals, and rapscallions?

Kaki bakar (1995) U-Wei Haji Saari

Proud of his Javanese heritage, Kakang is trying to bring up his children in Malaysia and instill in them his own traditional values and beliefs. Seeing clearly the social inequalities that allow him to be exploited his defiance results in profound consequences for his youngest son, a boy who shares his father’s uncompromising integrity.

Based on Barn Burning

Barton Fink, Ethan and Joel Coen, presenta un guionista alcohólico de fuerte acento sureño en evidente homenaje a William Faulkner.

Slave Ship (Redención ,1937)

Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride Nancy aboard he finds the same old setup, including slave trade.

To Have and Have Not ("Tener y no tener", 1944) Howard Hawks