The Postman is one of my favorite movies.

I've actually really liked the movie, and felt that the critics unfairly slammed it, sure it dragged for the first 30 minutes or so, but I loved the underlining message in that in a dire situation, you give people something to hope for, and they'll gravitate towards it and move forward...I'll need to read the book some day.

I don't care what the so called critics say.....this was not a bad movie. I thought it was better than waterworld.

@warmecanic

7 жыл бұрын

For fucking sure, waterworld is terrible, it´s like a very effective sleeping pill

@crimson8170

4 жыл бұрын

Its a good movie but i do think the book was much better

@russfoulkes5490

4 жыл бұрын

As a kid, I hated this one, and loved waterworld. This one is my favourite now.

Re David Brin's criticisms: An item from my list of maxims (which I wrote a while ago) is "Never judge a book by its movie."

I loved the Movie with Costner...then I read the book. The book is amazing and such a page turner! It seemed the movie just took the Title, name of characters, and Mailman part of plot and went with that. I still like the movie as long as I make myself think its a separate work from Brin's work. I'm not done with the book yet but I keep thinking Tom Petty is gonna pop up.

For people who have watched the film and either don't like it or don't understand it,this interview with the author is an absolute Must.

The Postman is my all-time favorite book. I have read it at least 7 times, and bought it three times. What I take away is how powerful others' expectations are. Take on a role, and the expectations others place upon you in that role force you to become what you were pretending to be. I enjoyed the movie, but it lost this critical element of the story.

This book is incredible, Costner's film lobotomized the cooler elements of the novel (augmented soldiers, in-depth background on Holn, Corvallis & Cyclops, The California Republic, the philosophical debate regarding authority, the role of women in a new world, Defensive Pacifism vs Aggression Expansion, ect.) too bad because the setting in the novel feels much larger and interesting.

@realtsavo

6 жыл бұрын

Not really, the augmented soldiers were a bit over the top, and took the book too far from reality, while simultaneously providing a deus ex machina that proved to be somewhat boring. And the politics of the story were placed too far at the forefront. It greatly weakened the book, which I had wanted to love.

@beatricemcallister6294

3 жыл бұрын

Ennh... the book's side plots were interesting, but I don't think they needed to be in the screenplay to drive it. Plus, we weren't ready (and still aren't) to cope with the matriarchal post-apocalypse government that forms after the events of the novel.

The movie was better than the critics said. I think people were tired of Costner and his vanity projects at the time. Yes, some of the scenes were too on the nose (the postman getting the letter from the child..etc) but it actually had an intriguing message that sometimes playing a role makes you become that person.

Had this movie come out after 9/11 it would have done much better.

Makes me cry... 🇺🇸 I ❤ the dialogue, Acting, and Sound-track. Gives me hope. 🎭 🎬 🎥

This is my favorite book and one of my favorite movies. I hope I get to meet you some day!!!!!! Thanks David!

Any book made into movie that I've ever read the book & seen the movie, the book was ALWAYS better. That doesn't mean the movie isn't good; the book is just always better.

I would argue that the Book of Eli is also a story of hope, but the Postman is excellent as well. I'm not sure why the Book of Eli was alongside the other two at the beginning.

I enjoyed the movie and got misty eyed at the end. I agree with your observations on Kevin's cinematography. I feel this self we evident in his TV series "Yellowstone". It really shows you the true vastness and beauty of The Great Plains.

I always consider a movie to be the "outline" of the book.

@1138thz

8 жыл бұрын

+josephgioielli An outline written by a delusional drunk perhaps.

Yes. Definitely a very good book by an excellent author! I started with Startide Rising and have been a fan ever since. Continued success, Mr. Brin!

STUFFS GETTIN BETTER!

David, you are a very polite man! It was as if someone told Kevin the basics of the story and he then went a made a film without reading it, this book made me a committed reader of Brin for longer than it would be polite to mention. I do hope that one day someone makes this story into a movie and they include more than just the title....

Speaking from a 2018 point of view, David Brin's novel makes a great point about the alt-right. The book has the point that the small nuclear exchange, the resurgence of here-to-fore dead diseases, the riots, and the famine could all have been overcome if it wasn't for the neo-facists who sowed dissent among people who wanted to come together and fix what was broken.

@tompearce5418

Жыл бұрын

In the book it makes the point that widespread attacks on transportation systems by lawless elements (including Holnists) finally brought down the United States following a short nuclear war with an eastern fascist nation.

This makes me want to read the book more.

I love the book! They need to remake this movie with the computers, and the determined women, and the special effects to do the titanic battle of the augments! Good men (and women) must do something to defeat evil! Great story! Maybe an 8-episode Netflix series?

I LOVED THAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do like the movie we'll I know what people think but I like it , and now I'm trying to read the book and I like it a lot

I love the book, just angry it was so short. My main love of the book is for different reasons than most, it is because you capture my people so well, my people being those of Douglas County/Umpqua region of Oregon, who to me are the reluctant heroes of the novel, we just needed a nudge from the Postman. I wish you would see this comment and tell me how you know the people here so well, how we view the outside world, our family/tribal relationship between the tribe and the settlers to this day, even how we phrase things like "The Callahan" rather than the Callahan Mountains, I find nothing in any bio that you ever lived here or had family here, I cannot conceive that you grew to know us so well as just a tourist? I would love to know your relationship to Douglas County/Umpqua region someday.

@davidbrin1

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your thoughtful and interesting message. It truly is gratifying to be told when I got something right! Especially something that a reader cares deeply about and knows well. I was deeply moved. I cannot say that I immersed myself deeply in Umpqua culture, the two times that I briefly visited Douglas County and environs, though I do love to listen and pick up things and often they stick. I have long felt a strange affinity for the native peoples of the east coast (Iroquois/Cherokee) who featured in my first novel, Sundiver... and of the NorthWest, heroes of The Postman. As a straight white male, I know better than to wear these affinities as any kind of badge, though I have found that the "other" features very commonly in my works (e.g. "Otherness.") Anyway, in the Postman the characters and peoples seemed to write themselves. Let's hope we can write our shared story as citizens of a great civilization. Thrive & persevere, David Brin

The Postman is one of my favorite books. I was excited about the movie when it came out. Afterwards I refused to watch anything that had Kevin Costner in it for over ten years.

The ironic thing is that I read the book when it came out. Then years later I saw the movie and it seemed both familiar and new. The I read the book again. I love both, and I think they did the best they could within the limits of a movie. Faraday cages and super smart AI, augmented super soldiers would have turned an already 3 hour long movie into 5 hours+. But this is true of any epic book, from Tom Clancy to Isaac Asimov. You have to tear it down to the base elements, which here is hope and love. Which this movie kept. I am still proud to say I love it.

Always enjoyed the movie

I read the book every year. Gets better and better.

I didn't quite agree with the Feminism angle, it was sure interesting and did get me to think. The entire book was very well written and very thought-provoking. It also gave me an uplifting feeling for humanity in some way and felt happily patriotic. It was a great look at someone simply surviving but then decided to live for other people. It wasn't bombastic, which made it feel more grounded. I loved the book.

Interesting thoughts here.

I stumbled upon Brin reference a while ago, then again from other source and then I realised some time ago I read a part of his book by another coincidence borrowed from EuroCamp tent library... I liked all the improbable encounters and I think I'm going to buy some book finally.

I love the movies and that hope is our. best defense that keeps us from all going down wrong path the only other thing is I would love to have the Flag from the movie I think act a symbol of hope and reminded to well in life

The book is always better than the movie. I remember my parents hated the postman and it came up in conversation with a friend and I looked up the plot summary as I had never seen it. And the plot alone makes me think my parents might have been just trying to invent netflix and chill back in 97 or 98. I'm definitely gonna be reading or listening to this soon.

The road was a book about hope, did you even read it?

Books are books... more pauses to think about a world of possibilities and more pauses to dream

Great film! It's one of the few films I've not read the book yet. Ill have to do so.

This is one of my favorite movies. I guess i need to read the book l0l

I thought it was a great idea that the main character goes unnamed in the movie. It goes along better with the message of the story (in both the book and the movie). Basically, being only named "The Postman" in the movie, it's really a every man. Everybody, anyone, can make a difference.

I love The Postman.

Kevin Costner did a GREAT job on this and Dancing.

Read the book. Loved it. Saw the film and I still like it. They obviously took some liberties.. Maybe oneday it will get remade

The Kiln People is my favorite Brin novel, along with Startide Rising.

Bottom line is, the collapse is inevitable, we musn't become revolutionaries but rather seeds of civilization, preserve our knowlege, practice a fervent spiritual life, learn skills and crafts that can help rebuild our civilization.

So that's where Hideo Kojima took inspiration from... Ya know, that videogame named Death Stranding.

The irony of the movie is that Holnist oppression actually created popular demand for the postal network and a Restored United States.

MEMORABILE IL DISCORSO SUL SERVIZIO POSTALE E SUI SUOI COMPONENTI

Postman movie is good viewing I added to my library but you must read the book for the big thoughts as Brin indicates, movie in that mode contents only a fraction. I find the duet of a movie and its book interesting what is and is not in each. For instance Contact the book and then the movie fairly true to each other. Soylent Green book and movie interesting twist. Anyway Brin's Existance you MUST read, BIG IDEAS. I would rather see it in a movie true to it than Avatar 2,3 and 4. And as a kool distraction I REALLY REALLY want to see the UpLift Universe with the starship with a dolphin crew ;-)

"The Chronicles of Gordon Krantz." Great movie music: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pW2mlalvo6WWnZs.html

I first read the book in 1987. It greatly influenced me down the road of being a prepper and survivalist. I relate to the characters Nathan Holn, Brigadier General Volsci Macklin and Colonel C.W. Bezoar in my post-collapse philosophy though. "Lost Empire" indeed.

Movie on its own nice Sunday afternoon movie , but it doesn't compare to the book on either brains or heart , it's much like the movie no escape ray liotta cool little movie but nothing compared to the book the penal colony which it was based , don't know why these guys can't just at least 90 percent stick to the source material

Interesting video - thanks! (BTW - it's pronounced SHODden-froydeh).

Why is the audio only left side😭 terrible

fallout new vegas much?

3 Holnists dislike this video.

I was a postman at one point, I wouldn't recommend it

To say nothing of the book’s clever title.

A good read, for sure. The Audiobook on YT, is well read. The narrator's voice suits the character, 'Postman'. Unpredictable story line keeps the pages / ear twitching for more. - - the movie?, or whatever it is?, is about something else and based on some idea in the book. "Scooped out the brains", of the book. Intellect not needed to watch this noisy whiz bang, [ made for TV commercials], garbage.

My dad thoroughly hated the book and love the movie.

@ambrosiaplatypus

8 жыл бұрын

+GreatBigRanz your dads a piece of shit which makes you 50% shit

@1138thz

8 жыл бұрын

+ambrosiaplatypus I wont say the guys dad is a pice of shit but I can say that he is probably too dumb to enjoy the book or even understand its simple thesis.

@GreatBigRanz

8 жыл бұрын

1138thz its thesis was muddle in poor story structure.

@1138thz

8 жыл бұрын

GreatBigRanz That's your expert opinion?(snicker)

@pennymcintyre3795

6 жыл бұрын

Good

Neo-hippy augments?

@Mralexdenver

4 жыл бұрын

The program didn't end when you left

The book's better.

Very nice piece, but your mispronounciation of schadenfreude is really grating.

god damn you can bore a person

He rides a donkey? Yeah, I see your character...I am Him. Edit in that it's based on The second coming of the ONE called Christ. Except, His name won't be Christ... It'll be something like Brian... Hebrew definition of course.YHVH

Pfft Boomer Soy..

Schadenfreude, no matter how many times you mispronounce it....it still doesn't sound like that in German. You're a writer...make a damn effort to not rape words.

pass i dont like this hope books i want dark humanity raw humanity that comeout when society breaks apart dont like these happy go luckly books

@loscopihues2343

8 жыл бұрын

+Futurescped that's pretty edgy, man

@BuzzChronicles

8 жыл бұрын

elias contreras DUDE IM SERIOUS I NEED SOME RECOMMENDATION

@loscopihues2343

8 жыл бұрын

search for "dead man letters" a russian movie and the tale "i have no mouth and i must scream".