TRP unfilmable?

[Joe Allonby]

Hi, Elaine.

Naked Lunch has been filmed.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:48 AM, <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
>
>
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