Just watched Hearts in Atlantis...

[MrZetakappa]

il film mi è piaciuto ma preferisco il romanzo sara' x la bravura di King nel descrivere i personaggi e la loro personalita'

[Susanne]

I think this should have been a miniseries chronicling all the parts of the book, just my opinion though

good idea! I´d watch it. I loved the book. The movie is also acceptable. I like the music they used there. One of the songs was also in Sleepwalkers.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Sir Anthony Hopkins for Ted Brautigan in the upcoming DT films/series.

Please.

Don't you think?

Long days and pleasant nights

[Mookie]

Hi,

Sir Anthony Hopkins for Ted Brautigan in the upcoming DT films/series.

Please.

Don't you think?

Long days and pleasant nights

OMG that would be perfect. I adore his acting.

[Moderator]

Not to mention that he's already played the part for Hearts in Atlantis.

[Ela]

Can anyone explain to me why is it titled "Hearts in Atlantis"?

[Bryan James]

Can anyone explain to me why is it titled "Hearts in Atlantis"?

"Aces," "Clubs," or "Spades" just wouldn't have worked.

[Ela]

I didn't finish the book yet. I've seen the movie. I am at the part about playing Hearts and chasing the bitch, and hearing of Atlantis from time to time. Still..there must be more then cards to this title. I'm just curious.
Thanks Bryan and Nate.

[Damaris]

The title can have all sorts of meanings, depending on how you want to look at it. First, it's about the game of "Hearts" that they were playing in "Atlantis" (as the narrator called the 1960s), that's the most obvious meaning. But then you could take "Hearts" to include the different romantic relationships in the stories and the sort of opaque fantasy that the mention of "Atlantis" in general brings. Similarly, "Hearts" could include all the important emotional experiences within all the book's characters (as in taking something "to heart"). And "Atlantis" could also be taken to signify everything that was lost during that time and from that generation (the "lost" city of Atlantis) as well as the characters with unknown or unhappy fates (as Atlantis was thought to have both). I'm sure I could go on, but that's a reasonable start, I think. In short, it means as much or as little as you want it to mean.

[Ela]

Thanks Damaris. I am at the last story of the book.

Yeah, I guess the most fitting in my opinion is that it is about the past love and past live, and what's lost. Sort of like; here I am but my heart is there, searching, exploring and some past just never goes away, just like Atlantis.
The Hearts game fits as a metaphor for winning but at what cost, the meaningless war for some but money maker for others. And for students, some gain and lost at the same time, they even lost life if they did not study as the 'duty' called and they had to go to war and fight.

Hearts in Atlantis..hmm

Cheers!

Ela