What would you like to see?

POSTED BY: christhecynic
UPDATED: Sunday, June 29, 2003 05:38
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KOFFEE

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 11:51 PM

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Originally posted by christhecynic:
There are few who have read the book and seen the movie who would not shout at the top of their lungs to make everyone understand that the movie in no way refelects the book. (I would but you still wouldn't be able to hear me from where you are.)

Same thing goes for Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned. ((shudder)) Not what she wrote at all.

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 11:53 PM

Havn't read it or seen it, probably should considering I'm writing a book with vampires in it.

RIVERSIDE

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:16 PM

How about a Sci-Fi series based on the universe of H.P. Lovecraft? Although he's often lumped into Horror, a lot of his stuff is very sci-fi.

Guess I'm just a geekchick who used to run Call of Cthulhu, but I think it'd make a fun show. Could be dark, comic, dramatic...all the stuff we love in a Joss show....hey Joss! How do you feel about Lovecraft? ;-)

CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:36 PM

How about one about angels? Not the touched by an angel kind, but the biblical "I kill entire cities without blinking" kind. Everyone seems hung up on demons these days, but angels are interesting too. (Yes, if you haven’t figured out yet this is fantasy not sci fi, but what the hell.)

You've got the Grigori who just seem to want to elevate man to the power of the divine (not god so much as the angels) while having sex with the best looking females, their kids-very powerful half breeds (Nephalim). The strict loyalists, the fallen host (yeah these are the demons, they are 1/3rd of the angels) and many more who likely squabble over internal politics.

Grigori are the teachers of sorcery, divination, astrology, herbology, and other bad things. They also had children by humans.
Nephalim were the kids of the Grigori in many translations, they are said to be both great men, and heroes, as well as terrible and other bad things. Some of them are said to be the giants.
The rest most know, I think it could make an interesting story.

NONOLUNA

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:59 PM

There's a book called 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' that would make an interesting series...It takes place in Botswana (a culture that I haven't seen much of on TV) and although she's a detective, it's her inate understanding of people and culture and the simple pleasures in life that make the stories so intriguing...

INVISIBLEGREEN

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 9:09 PM

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Originally posted by christhecynic:
I would like to see the book Starship Troopers made into a movie. The movie that has been put out bears little resemblance to the book. I like it, but to pretend that that is a film version of the book is an insult. I don't see why they didn't just give it a new name.

Wasn't the movie supposed to function as a sequel to the book? I haven't read the book, so I don't know for sure.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:27 PM

No, it takes place at the same time, with the same characters, but that is the extent of the similarity. The plot is different, although many events are the same, the characters are flat, and a variety of other divergences are present.

To understand exactly how they are related it might help to imagine the following.

You read a book and write down the names of key characters.

Then you write in four of the events and the setting

finally you give what you've written to someone who has never read the book and tell them to make a movie out of it. Make sure that they make the movie with a completely different approach then the book, if the book was about politics make it so the movie is about sex, things like that.

If the book's strength was it's realism then make the movie look really fake.

The movie that would result, and the original book would be related in the same way that the movie and book Starship Troopers are related. That is the best way that I can describe it, to truly understand you need to read the book and watch the movie. Unlike some things the order you do it in doesn't matter, they are so different that which one you saw/read first wont affect how much you like them.

KAC

Thursday, May 15, 2003 6:19 AM

Heinlein himself always hated Stranger in a Strange Land. He is reported to have said it is proof that some people will do anything for money. The best example of pure Heinlein is clearly The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, very much n the same vein as Starshiptroopers but not as reactionary.

kac

GAEBOLGA

Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:44 PM

I'd like to see a show about faeries. Not the wussie "oh look, I've got wings and pixie dust!" kind of fairies, but the "holy fucking christ, she just unleashed the Wild Hunt on my sorry ass" kind of faeries. You know: Them. Anyway, taking a page from Pwyll (of Mabinogi fame), what if the otherworld was having a bit of an arms race involving humans...after all, faeries are immortal unless they receive a wound from a human. So the faerie kingdoms keep kidnapping humans to fight in their wars (eventually, there might not even be any faeries on the battlefields), and they keep arming these humans with faerie blades and such.

Now throw in a page or two from Spartacus, and see what happens.

Well, it sounds good to me, anyway....

- Fear the badger, for it is mighty!

RIVERSIDE

Thursday, May 15, 2003 6:22 PM

Faeries? Not the cutesy kind, but the kind that will release the "wild hunt" on your ass?
Hmmm...are we talking traditional folk tales or White Wolf here? If WW, then please recall the disaster that was the tv show based on Vampire, The Masquerade. Although I suppose if Joss were writing it...any of these might be really, really cool.
*gamer geekness*

Side note of badass Fey, ever read Artemis Fowl?

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