Entertainment QotD: Adaptation
Which book would you love to see adapted into a film?
Oh man, a question I like and I can't even come up with a good answer. Maybe inspiration will come to me later. :-)
I do sometimes read a book like I'm watching a movie. I block it and direct it in my head, and sometimes I cast it. If I ever made a movie from a book (especially a "period piece") I would take care to make it feel organic and genuine. I hate it when sets and costumes and stuff feel fake and cheap, or when they take a wonderful, understated plot and pump it up for Hollywood. Gah.
The last book I did this with was The Woman in White. Some of the images in the book were so evocative it was like watching and hearing it on a screen.
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"I hate it when sets and costumes and stuff feel fake and cheap, or when they take a wonderful, understated plot and pump it up for Hollywood"
Testify. I have a feeling that you - like I - would be positively merciless when it comes to that type of abuse.
I'll bet you think of one, very soon.....share it?
How about this: they should write a book about House and make that a movie.
*grins*
Have you ever read The 39 Steps? The original 1935 Hitchcock film took huge plot liberties, but yet it felt true to the book, there's some intangible thing about a story and that film captured it with that one, I wish more adaptations would do the same.