TRP unfilmable?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Never done well, but seems possible:

The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment

wish someone would make:

Childhood's End -- Arthur C. Clarke


Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Elaine Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 29, 2008 12:42 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>Subject: Re: TRP unfilmable?
>
>On May 29, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Elaine Bell wrote:
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>http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/
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>My additions:
>Pale Fire
>The Well of Loneliness
>Oblomov
>Nausea
>Sotoba Komache
>Naked Lunch
>Necromancer
>The Diagnosis
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>PLUS:  Films That Have Been Done But Should Not Have Been
>Atlas Shrugged
>The Tin Drum
>Act Without Words
>Eraserhead
>Das Boot
>The Cat in the Hat
>Lord of the Rings
>Helter Skelter
>The Day of the Locust
>Grapes of Wrath
>Death in Venice
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>PLUS PLUS:  Films That Have Not Been Done (as far as I know) But Should Be
>A Winter's Tale
>Summer
>Heat
>After The Banquet
>Henderson The Lion King
>Fast Asleep in Frog Pajamas
>Roderick Hudson
>The Spoils of Poynton
>Brave New World
>Nana
>Against Nature
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>-- 
>Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
>585.218.9583
>Have Laptop/Will Travel
>
>On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think a film version of GR that was true to the book would be
>> excruciating to sit through.  I'm comfortable with the idea that some things
>> are best left in print.
>>
>> There've been plans in the works for years to turn Blood Meridian into a
>> film.  The project was dropped at one point , then picked up again.  They
>> have yet to come up with a script.  Staying true to the book would result in
>> a pretentious gore-fest with zero plot development and no real characters.
>>  Hard to sit through for most people (including me), I'd imagine.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Bruce Appelbaum <brucea at bestweb.net>
>> >Sent: May 28, 2008 2:42 PM
>> >To: Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at cox.net>
>> >Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> >Subject: Re: TRP unfilmable?
>> >
>> >All are filmable.  The real questions are:  would anybody be able to
>> >really do them justice AND if they were done properly, would they be
>> >commercially viable?
>> >
>> >
>> >Bruce
>> >
>> >"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
>> >--- Hunter S. Thompson
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On May 28, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Paul Di Filippo wrote:
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>> >>
>> http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/
>> >
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>-- 
>Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
>585.218.9583
>Have Laptop/Will Travel