Unfilmable novels

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The structure of movies doesn't allow for verbosity (My Dinner With Andre being an obvious exception).  A better way to go with GR might be a multi-part BBC TV series, allowing for extended voice-over quotes from the book.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>

>"If anyone can do it: I???m not sure how anyone could even try to extract a 
>story out of epic tomes like ???Gravity???s Rainbow???. Nicholas Roeg springs to 
>mind, with films like Performance and The Man Who Felt to Earth, being both 
>confusing, visually verbose, and at times quite lofty."
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>http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/
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