Talk:No Such Thing (film)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 00:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Island location

Where exactly is the small rocky island off the coast of Iceland shown in the film as the home of the monster? -96.233.30.113 (talk) 04:32, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Location: Just outside Keflavic. Ironic, no? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.137.150.35 (talk) 02:35, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Relationship to 9/11

When exactly was this film conceived, written, filmed, and released (in various countries)? What exactly is the relationship of the film to 9/11?

France May 2001 (Cannes Film Festival)

Spain 12 October 2001 (Sitges Film Festival)

Turkey 20 January 2002 (AFM International Independent Film Festival)

USA 29 March 2002 (limited)

Sweden 26 September 2002 (Lund Fantastisk Film Festival)

Iceland 15 November 2002

It appears that it was completely finished before 9/11. Were any changes made before the releases after 9/11?

"The movie is a caustic satire of our time. Set in a not-so-exaggerated post-9/11 society, No Such Thing depicts “a world gone media mad,” in which daily terrorist threats are only filler for the really juicy stories." (Kevin Laforest apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=4529) Kevin seems mistaken, since the movie was made before 9/11.

"The irony, of course, is that it was never released.

Most times when a movie goes straight to video, it's because the movie is a disaster. No Such Thing is no disaster. It's odd--a hybrid of King Kong, Beauty and the Beast, and John Gardner's novel Grendel--and even Hartley's die-hard fans might find the monster conceit a tricky one to swallow. But the picture is funny and smart, and could easily have found an audience... if it weren't for September 11, 2001. Although "the events" are now beginning to recede into memory, I doubt I have to remind anyone that in the months immediately afterward, the Entertainment Industrial Complex was in an absolute tizzy. Artists wondered if their work was still valid, while corporations worried that any reference to terrorism, Muslims, unrest, warfare, airplanes, or (especially) the World Trade Center would offend the entire world.

In the second scene in No Such Thing, a cynical TV news producer (Helen Mirren) is informed that domestic terrorism is up 70 percent, homemade nuclear weapons are being traded on the open market, the government is on strike, climatic irregularities continue ("it's snowing in Johannesburg"), "and of course, the Middle East." Old news, Mirren yawns, get me something catastrophic. The scene is pure Hartley: atrocious news delivered as mundane fact and reacted to accordingly. It's funny (if familiar), and sets up the context in which the Monster's disdain for humankind (he has two soliloquies that sum it up with beautifully articulate vulgarity) makes him a fire-breathing killer who really just wants to die.

But the subtext--no wait, the text--is that regardless of what terrors are thrown our way, man does a perfectly good job of destroying himself of his own accord. This is hardly a message that the raw nerves attending 9/11's aftermath would be interested in hearing, at least not in the minds of a Hollywood studio."

(by Sean Nelson, From the Jul 18 – Jul 24, 2002 issue; thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=11375)

-96.233.30.113 (talk) 04:38, 19 January 2010 (UTC)