The Hare with the Amber Eyes would make a great movie.
Imagine all the locations Japan, Russia, Paris, Vienna, England and back to Japan.
In some ways perhaps the story is too complex for just a two
hour movie. Not only do you have the netsuke moving around from city to city you’d have to tell the story of the owners and their relationships. People coming together, people loosing one another. The most complicated story being Viktor and Emmy in Vienna.
A screenwriter might even start the story in 1880's Japan to explain how the hare becomes part of the collection…all down just visually under the beginning credits.
Perhaps it’s too big for a movie. It should be an opera. Imagine the wonderful music representing cities, history with the constant theme of the netsuke connecting it all.
It could be a cycle. Not the Ring Cycle but the Hare of the Netsuke.
I’ll have to send this idea off to Peter Gelb at the Metropolitan
Opera before someone else does. Quick get me his address…
The Nazi’s win again.
Our April book is “In the Garden of the Beasts” by Eric Larson.
Appropriate. I think Hitler’s birthday is in April. If only he had been accepted to art school…the world might have been a different place.
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