Favorite Book into Film, Not Yet Done?
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airylii wrote:
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Haha that's a great quote. I'll just have to go rob a bank or something and then I'll be all set.
Cool - I'll be the getaway Driver!
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Hee yes. Only I don't think she could quite understand anything they were saying .
That's pretty funny really, because the way it's acted you almost believe you know what's said. Interesting :)
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Yeah, I think the ruthless editing is the hardest part for me. That and the fact that I always seem to go in the direction of condescending to the audience. I'm always afraid they just won't "get it". Which is, incidentally, something I was told over and over to avoid while studying Hemingway.
You know one thing i did to combat this was to write in prose, or the poetry. It tends to force you to refine your words. I worked for me on one or two projects.
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Let me know how that goes; I've always been curious as to how exactly to go about that.
Yeah me aswell. So far I haven't reached any conclusions other than blind luck! But thanks for the best wishes... That's very kind of you.
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Heh yeah, exactly. Although apparently, in order to be a real scifi fan, I'm supposed to at least know what Star Trek is about. Hee so I guess I should get on that sooner or later..
The last star trek I saw I really thought was bad. Whichever film that was I forgotten now, but I think I fell asleep towards the end. Pity really because I quite like the guy who plays Picard (Patrick Stewart)
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Real simple. :Gives Jayne's crazy ivan face from the Serenity pilot: :P
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Yeah, definitely check that out; I only got to see the first Act or so, but it was very well done. And the girl playing- damn, I can't even remember her name; the youngest one- did obsessed nuttiness very well.
Was that Adela? was she the obsessed one?
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Haha it's all good. I flew back from San Francisco on Saturday. Actually, I hadn't had a chance to ask you- everything okay with you over there in England? We heard about the bombings pretty late in California, and the NYTimes hadn't even had a chance to report it yet. So far, most people I know are okay, but it must be insane over there right now. Hope everything is well.
Well you know it's not that different to what we all grew up with over here. You see since I've lived in England we've always had terrorist threats. A few years ago it was the IRA that reaked terror for 25 or so years, and as a kid I remember going into London knowing that there was a chance of a bombing! Now It always scared me of course, but at the same time - you rationalise the fact that there's a greater chance of being run over than there is being a victim of a bombing attack. However I must stress I don't live in London, I live relatively nearby but I'm far enough away not to be affected directly, unless as I say I take a trip into the Capital. My friends though seem suitably philosophical about it. In simple terms, they're not that troubled by it.
That said my heart sank for all those people who lost there lives... It's not a way to die. It's very tragic.
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San Francisco was absolutely gorgeous; we visited Berkeley and Stanford, both of which I loved. I think so far Stanford is my first choice, which doesn't bode well for me because I think they have somethng against admitting stupid people . We'll see how that goes.
Ahh you're not stoopid! I wish you the best with your choice.
Cheers
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Book into film, huh?
I'll start with a little hard to find number called Nightblood, by T. Chris Martindale. That book is what Blade could have been...You know, if he'd been white, human, and a Vietnam vet...I'd want John Carpenter on that one...Kurt Russell could play Stiles, a vet on a mission to find a thing so evil, that when it killed his brother, his brother was doomed to stay in limbo forever...
Bring Me The Head of Prince Charming...Hard to pull off, but, man, if enough people with sardonic senses of humor (why do I think that just about all the population of this site counts?) got together, it could be done...A fun little book...Not unlike Shrek, actually...
The Dark Knight Returns...I'd love to see it...but, damn would it be impossible...Maybe animated...
The Secret Tapes of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper...Twin Peaks was interesting enough on its own, but this book has David Lynch written all over it!
The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger. I'm not interested in seeing any of the others, because this one has the least amount of cast in it...But, these would be so very easy to screw up...
The Horn Series...Sci Fi pulp noir (almost), about a cop with a cybernetic robot arm...(Has that been done already?)
It'll never happen in my lifetime, but I wouldn't mind seeing the orignal Sinister Six vs Spider-Man.
Worth Winning...Actually, someone did take the basic premise and make a movie of this book, but didn't come close to doing it justice. This is a vicious book about a man who takes a bet to become engaged to three women at once...Which might be fine, until they all find out without his knowledge...
The Phantom of the Opera...Make the book, people!!! MAKE THE BOOK!!!
Necroscope...Take The Sixth Sense, and add some balls to it, and you'll get this fantastic series of books...That seems to be written very cinematically.
Tortilla Flats...Has this been made? I'm not sure...But, I love the simple nature that Steinbeck put in this...
And, I'll be back with some more later...
Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."
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Book into film, huh?
The Phantom of the Opera...Make the book, people!!! MAKE THE BOOK!!!
I hear Universal is actually getting on that. Should be out in a couple of years if it goes well.
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I would like to see a movie of 'Concrete Dreams' by Chris Mansell. Unfortunately this would be impossible as I haven't finished yet although it is quite good if I do say so myself.
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airylii wrote:
Cool - I'll be the getaway Driver!
Nice! Now we need a plan, or some such nonsense.
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That's pretty funny really, because the way it's acted you almost believe you know what's said. Interesting :)
Haha yeah. I think it was the pronunciation that threw her off.
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You know one thing i did to combat this was to write in prose, or the poetry. It tends to force you to refine your words. I worked for me on one or two projects.
I find that actually works quite well. I did the reverse one time, fleshing out a poem into a short story and I found that I had said everything so much better and much more succintly in the poem. Figures.
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The last star trek I saw I really thought was bad. Whichever film that was I forgotten now, but I think I fell asleep towards the end. Pity really because I quite like the guy who plays Picard (Patrick Stewart)
Patrick Stewart...isn't he Xavier in X-Men?
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Was that Adela? was she the obsessed one?
Yes! That's her name. Man, I hated her character.
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Well you know it's not that different to what we all grew up with over here. You see since I've lived in England we've always had terrorist threats. A few years ago it was the IRA that reaked terror for 25 or so years, and as a kid I remember going into London knowing that there was a chance of a bombing! Now It always scared me of course, but at the same time - you rationalise the fact that there's a greater chance of being run over than there is being a victim of a bombing attack. However I must stress I don't live in London, I live relatively nearby but I'm far enough away not to be affected directly, unless as I say I take a trip into the Capital. My friends though seem suitably philosophical about it. In simple terms, they're not that troubled by it.
You know, I think that's become the universal mentality; to just live with it. I was living right outside of the city when 9.11 happened and I was in Spain the time of the Madrid bombings (woohoo for good location picking..go me..) and that's basically what everyone was like. Good to hear you're okay though.
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That said my heart sank for all those people who lost there lives... It's not a way to die. It's very tragic.
Absolutely..it all just makes me so mad. I was quite impressed by Blair and his handling of the situation though; he went right back to the issue on poverty without maniacally declaring war on another country. Ahem..
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Ahh you're not stoopid! I wish you the best with your choice.
Haha thanks very much. Here's to the white devils that are college applications.
Cheers!
Airylli
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airylii wrote:
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I find that actually works quite well. I did the reverse one time, fleshing out a poem into a short story and I found that I had said everything so much better and much more succintly in the poem. Figures.
Isn't that always the way... Still a useful lesson learned no doubt.
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Patrick Stewart...isn't he Xavier in X-Men?
Yup that be him. He does an ad voiceover here in the uk, and he has a great voice. Really deep and lush, like liquid gold... I always listen out for great voices and he's amoung the best going.
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Yes! That's her name. Man, I hated her character.
....I've dated a few women like that... Not nice.
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You know, I think that's become the universal mentality; to just live with it. I was living right outside of the city when 9.11 happened and I was in Spain the time of the Madrid bombings (woohoo for good location picking..go me..) and that's basically what everyone was like. Good to hear you're okay though.
Crickey!!! That's alarming for you! But yeah generally I believe the public are just continuing as normal.... I mean in all reality we have little choice.... You can't run and hide, so you just continue.
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Absolutely..it all just makes me so mad. I was quite impressed by Blair and his handling of the situation though; he went right back to the issue on poverty without maniacally declaring war on another country. Ahem..
Well us brits have had centuries to hone our 'stiff upper lipped' skills. It's pretty much second nature to us.
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Haha thanks very much. Here's to the white devils that are college applications.
Indeed. I raise a glass in your general direction and salute your application.
Good Luck.
TheSomnambulist.
P.S. it's amazing where a simple discussion on a favourite book will get you.
Hurray for Notre Dame of Paris!
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Speaking of LotR and books that need to be made into movies, Peter Jackson needs to give the same treatment to The Hobbit.
I second that. I always did love the Hobbit; I read it before anything else. And at the time, I'd never even heard of anything like "Lord of the Rings", so when the movies came out, I was like whoa, that sounds like this book I read one time...
Yuhuh. I was twelve. So sue me.
HA! I was in the second grade when me dad gave me The Hobbit to read. I loved it, and when I got through I told dad, "I really like Bilbo's ring." He just silently nodded and scratched his chin before asking me to follow him. He introduced me to LotR, and I was enthralled. Read them sitting in class and my teacher told my mother if she let me read the books I'd turn out 'weird.'
If only my mother would have listened. Ack!
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Isn't that always the way... Still a useful lesson learned no doubt.
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Yup that be him. He does an ad voiceover here in the uk, and he has a great voice. Really deep and lush, like liquid gold... I always listen out for great voices and he's amoung the best going.
Oh, I know what you mean...Another voice I love is Clive Owen's. I think he'd make reading a phonebook sound interesting.
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....I've dated a few women like that... Not nice.
Good grief, I'm so sorry. I don't think I've found a male counterpart like that and hopefully I never, ever will. :P
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Crickey!!! That's alarming for you! But yeah generally I believe the public are just continuing as normal.... I mean in all reality we have little choice.... You can't run and hide, so you just continue.
Yeah...We can't all live in bomb shelters for our entire lives :suddenly remembers Nathan Fillion's cameo in Blast from the Past:.
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Well us brits have had centuries to hone our 'stiff upper lipped' skills. It's pretty much second nature to us.
Hahaha good on you...if only we had some more of that over here.
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Indeed. I raise a glass in your general direction and salute your application.
Good Luck.
Thank you!
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P.S. it's amazing where a simple discussion on a favourite book will get you.
Hurray for Notre Dame of Paris!
Hahaha exactly. Incidentally, I was rereading the book the other day trying to figure out how one would write a screenplay...NOT as easy as one would think. Damn Hugo and his obsession with saving high gothic cathedrals...
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HA! I was in the second grade when me dad gave me The Hobbit to read. I loved it, and when I got through I told dad, "I really like Bilbo's ring." He just silently nodded and scratched his chin before asking me to follow him. He introduced me to LotR, and I was enthralled. Ack!
Hee! Bet you didn't like his ring so much afterwards...Incidentally, how come he wasn't affected like Frodo was?
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Read them sitting in class and my teacher told my mother if she let me read the books I'd turn out 'weird.'
If only my mother would have listened.
Aw honey! Well, at least you didn't turn out "normal". :shudder:
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If I had the power, I'd get Reading Lolita in Tehran made yesterday! Ang Lee's entire filmography has been building up to this kind of multi-cultural, multi-narative masterpiece. I would love to see his versions of the scenes from The Great Gatsby, Lolita, Daisy Miller, Pride and Prejudice, etc. that inform the main story. It would be a real tour de force. And the memoir of being a female literature professor at the University of Tehran through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq would be amazing and so, so timely.
I think A Song of Ice and Fire needs to be an HBO miniseries because Peter Dinklage was born to play Tyrion Lanister.
All the Phillip Marlowe novels should be slavishly adapted to the screen.
The Earth Sea Trilogy plus Tehanu would be amazing to see, if only producers could trust the material. I had such high hopes after LoTR that folks in Hollywood would get it that good books make good movies ifyou trust the material and simply shoot the story. Yes, change the text where absolutely necessary, but great, beloved classics are great and beloved for a reason: the stories.
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