Trashy? ...Or AWESOME?
POSTED BY: Bytemite
UPDATED: Sunday, May 15, 2011 14:49
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I have been thinking about the potential for rewrite of some classic novels, though feel free to post some of your own ideas about things that might skirt the boundaries of good taste, but also be potentially really amazing.
First exhibit.
I know you're all familiar with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Putting aside that Jane Austen found the gothic novels of her time dreadful and would totally hate this:
Pride and Prejudice, where Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham are competing vampires.
DISCUSS.
(You'll never see the original story the same way again after thinking about this, I kid you not)
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Personally I don't see the appeal. Classic literature is more often than not about characters. You make Darcy and Co into Vampires then you alter their personality - essentially making them different people. So what would be the point?
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A whole secret side of the story that we aren't even aware of. Character behaviour, that if you think about it, could be consistent with vampire seduction techniques. And then, the final tragic horror of realizing what is going to happen to Elizabeth after the unholy marriage.
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The duality would be too extreme. Maintaining two such seperate realities would reduce the whole premise into a sit com farce.
It's not that the concept wouldn't work it's just that those characters would clash with the narrative.
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Moby Dick, only the whales are ORGANIZED. America and Europe develope seperately until the 18th century when Professor B. Franklin out of Liverpool, cribbing from Leonardo Da Vinci, invents the first aeroplane. And Powhatan makes a treaty with the great whale warcheif Mobidi'ish for the conquest of Europe. Hijinks ensue.
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
It's not that the concept wouldn't work
Woo!
Sorry, everything else to me sounded like "challenge, challenge, challenge."
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Nope. You know me better than that Byte...
I just happen to think that these ideas have to be considered with the characters very much in mind. Especially with the old classics.
For example you can't have Pickwick from the Pickwick Papers suddenly doing a weight loss montage in order to ready himself with a fight against some Zombies from the new world or something. That's just not Pickwick.
It has to pertain, to some extent, to the character.
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Wickham is a devilish gambler and debaucher, Darcy is a cold and distant and rich mysterious land owner. Dissociating for a moment whether the proposals offered by either were ever sincere, and in what directions that could effect a vampire narrative, neither character appears to me to preclude reinterpretation as a vampire.
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Ha,Ha... Well I'd have to brush up on my Pride and Prejudice 
I never wish to contradict creativity, so I say; Bytemite... Go for it. Why not write a version? Seriously. Just jot down a page worth of significant scenes and see how it flows?
You never know.
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