Never would've guessed it, but somebody has made a film based on at least some small part of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. It's German, it's called Prüfstand 7, and it was directed by Robert Bramkamp. It's got everything: Wernher von Braun, General Dornberger, V2 rockets, KZ Mittelbau-Dora, etc. I'll have to get the DVD and watch it. Pynchon has a special place in my heart because he was a technical writer at Boeing in the early '60s who later made a name for himself as a brilliant author of quirky books. In 1997 while I was subscribed to the Pynchon-L list, one of Pynchon's ex-friends surfaced long enough to involve me and the rest of the list into a strange Internet experiment in collaborative fiction. A book was produced and two copies were mailed to me for my part in the weirdness.
[Addendum 07/21/03: Nice von Braun links: Redstone Arsenal and NASA.
Posted by jim at July 20, 2003 06:27 PM