Demogorgon
05-31-2009, 08:39 AM
I have been battleing over this for quite som time now, check out my old threads if you want to get the full story:
In the beginning of the 1987 horror movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” Edgar Allan Poe gets credit for the quote: “Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.”
This is just a hoax pulled off for marketing reasons, and a very successful one it is! Half the world seems to think that this quote really origins from Poe.
I demand that anyone, including Wes Craven (credited for writing story and screenplay), Frank Darabont, Chuck Russel and Bruce Wagner (credited for writing the screenplay), who claims the quote to be something that Edgar Allan Poe wrote to present real proof.
And by the way, it is NOT LONGFELLOW either. That is just another common misconception.
6 thousand trillion and one hits or more on google is NOT proof of anything. You will find a lot of dubious and unreliable facts and misconceptions presented as facts on the internet by using search engines or wikipedia.
Real, verifying solid proof would be found in a poem, a short story, a play, an article in newspaper, a letter or anything that you could actually read. Something like “…you can find the quote in a letter, handwritten by Edgar Allan Poe, on public display at the Baltimore Musem” or “…you can find the quote in the short story INSERT NAME by Edgar Allan Poe on page 34, fourth row, second sentence” and so forth.
If there is nothing like that to show for, it is proably the greatest literary hoax pulled of by Hollywood marketeers of the last millennium!
The only documented source so far is the following:
"I don’t sleep. I hate those little slices of death."
ATTRIBUTION:
Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959 (based on the novel by Jules Verne)
Walter Reisch (1903–1963), Austrian screenwriter, Charles Brackett (1892–1969), U.S. and Henry Levin.
The character Count Saknussemm (Thayer David) at the edge of the sea, explaining to Lindenbrook why he isn’t resting.
Sweet dreams everyone…
In the beginning of the 1987 horror movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” Edgar Allan Poe gets credit for the quote: “Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.”
This is just a hoax pulled off for marketing reasons, and a very successful one it is! Half the world seems to think that this quote really origins from Poe.
I demand that anyone, including Wes Craven (credited for writing story and screenplay), Frank Darabont, Chuck Russel and Bruce Wagner (credited for writing the screenplay), who claims the quote to be something that Edgar Allan Poe wrote to present real proof.
And by the way, it is NOT LONGFELLOW either. That is just another common misconception.
6 thousand trillion and one hits or more on google is NOT proof of anything. You will find a lot of dubious and unreliable facts and misconceptions presented as facts on the internet by using search engines or wikipedia.
Real, verifying solid proof would be found in a poem, a short story, a play, an article in newspaper, a letter or anything that you could actually read. Something like “…you can find the quote in a letter, handwritten by Edgar Allan Poe, on public display at the Baltimore Musem” or “…you can find the quote in the short story INSERT NAME by Edgar Allan Poe on page 34, fourth row, second sentence” and so forth.
If there is nothing like that to show for, it is proably the greatest literary hoax pulled of by Hollywood marketeers of the last millennium!
The only documented source so far is the following:
"I don’t sleep. I hate those little slices of death."
ATTRIBUTION:
Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959 (based on the novel by Jules Verne)
Walter Reisch (1903–1963), Austrian screenwriter, Charles Brackett (1892–1969), U.S. and Henry Levin.
The character Count Saknussemm (Thayer David) at the edge of the sea, explaining to Lindenbrook why he isn’t resting.
Sweet dreams everyone…