TRP unfilmable?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Aki Kaurismaeki went Bresson (minimalizing where FD maximalizes) in
his first direction, Crime and Punishment. One of his better flicks.
Bresson's Pickpocket is, of course, an even looser adaptation of the
novel (pickpocketing in place of murder), and one of the best films.

Pynchon's novels may not be filmable. For the cinema, at least.
I can imagine AtD, and probably AtD only, as a long serial.


Heikki



On Thu, 29 May 2008, Natália Maranca wrote:

> Crime and Punishment doesn't seem that filmable to me. When you film a
> novel, many of the narrator's voice is being lost. It would be unstandable
> to watch a movie too faithful to, for example, GR, because it just wouldn't
> be P. Dostoyevsky has the same kind of issue. I'm not sure it's possible to
> transmit the same message he does without using his words.
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:48 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > 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:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/
> > >
> > >My additions:
> > >Pale Fire
> > >The Well of Loneliness
> > >Oblomov
> > >Nausea
> > >Sotoba Komache
> > >Naked Lunch
> > >Necromancer
> > >The Diagnosis
> > >
> > >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
> > >
> > >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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >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:
> > >> >
> > >> >>
> > >>
> > http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film/
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
> > >585.218.9583
> > >Have Laptop/Will Travel
> >
> >
>