TRP unfilmable?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

So has Oblomov.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 30, 2008 10:25 AM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: TRP unfilmable?
>
>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
>>
>>