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Uploaded by on Feb 6, 2008

A kid wakes up one morning to find that he is a bug. Part 1 of the adaptation of the Franz Kafka short story.

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  • What an amazingly dull adaptation of a classic piece of theatre.

  • horrible. ill conceived. truly bad...

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  • what the fuck

  • at least Tom Waits is in here...

  • This is ridiculous...as a man who had never read Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" until today I really can't say anything positive about this video. It is incredibly bad, almost to the point of becoming offensive in nature.

    This is actually the Gregor Samsa of YouTube videos.

    A promising upstart(concept) ruined by a dramatic change in circumstance(direction/acting/­creative control...) whom ultimately awakes as a monstrous vermin...only to die a rotten, dried out husk.

  • I think the concept is interesting. The execution suffered, but that's to be expected. And OFR, it might be amazingly dull, but it's an adaption of a classic piece of literature, not theatre. German literature, actually.

  • Most intriguing take on Kafka's story. That the boy (Greg as the American Gregor makes perfect sense) has to act the metamorphosis without cosmetics or costume is particularly effective. David Bowie did the same on stage as the Elephant Man in the Pomerantz play to acclaim. It is clear you read your Metamorphosis closely and with care, crafting a nightmare of adolescent transfiguration and insecurity. What might you do with "A Hunger Artist" or "Investigations of a Dog?"

  • oh my god...did this guy even read Kafka? And what's with Miles Davis? C'mon dude take this off Utube. it's terrible.

  • Well if you can't take criticism, don't post videos on the internet for the world to see. Oh & in that video of my cat, the stifled meow represents Prince Myshkin's obsession for Natastasia Philipovna in Dostyovesky's The Idiot. The camera angle was inspired by the opening shot from Jeunet and Caro's Delicatessen & the curtains represented the German concept of Schadenfreude. I thought about filming it in black and white and putting some plinky plonky noises over the top but decided against it.

  • This is uniquely dreadful. The whole point of Metamorphosis was that it was horrific because it was incredibly believable. I hate it when people make student films thinking that they can convey the nightmarish quality of Kafka's stories by shooting in black and white and playing plinky-plonky noises over the top. Oh, and it's GregOR

  • where is the transformation?

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