Episode 2 - Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
Episode 3 of the Film Yarns podcast, hosted by Person, titled "Episode 2 - Slaughterhouse Five (1972)" was published on June 14, 2020 and runs 43 minutes.
June 14, 2020 ·43m · Film Yarns
Summary
Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 science fiction film based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel of the same name about a writer who tells a story in random order of how he was a soldier in World War II and was abducted by aliens. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill. Vonnegut wrote about the film soon after its release, in his preface to Between Time and Timbuktu: "I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen ... I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book."
Episode Description
Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 science fiction film based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel of the same name about a writer who tells a story in random order of how he was a soldier in World War II and was abducted by aliens. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill.
Vonnegut wrote about the film soon after its release, in his preface to Between Time and Timbuktu:
"I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen ... I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book."
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