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Stalean 
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 Posted - 03/22/2007 : 03:37:01
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I also read a book called "The Historian" which is a sort of DaVinci Code meets Dracula - that could be made into a pretty cool movie.
Good choice. This was a very interesting book. I just read where more star's favorite pastime is reading books they are considering taking options on to produce (Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts for instance). I think two recent stars who paved the way for this are Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood. I'm sure this has always been an activity for finding new material; I just think it is becoming more mainstream in the acting community. |
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MisterBadIdea 
"PLZ GET MILK, KTHXBYE"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 03:47:20
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Originally posted by R o � k G o 7 f
Even given the abysmal record of Alan Moore graphic novels made into into movies ("League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", "From Hell", "Swamp Thing", "V for Vendetta"), I'm still optimistic that a really great screenplay could make "Watchmen" a major film.
V for Vendetta and From Hell were fine.
I personally am not optimistic about Watchmen, particularly because it's so very much tied up with 1985. I honestly don't think it would make much sense in a post-Cold War, post-9/11 world. |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 06:10:30
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I just thought of another book that might make a very good movie - Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh. Marvelous novella and got me hooked on her writing and I took The Cutting Room out of the library, which would also make an excellent movie - very dark and brooding about snuff-porn and homosexuality. But now that my library has closed down, I had to buy her last book, The Bullet Trick, which I'm really looking forward to reading soon.
(I'm forcing myself to read John Irving's latest novel Until I Find You, and I'm not sure I should be suffering like this. Haven't enjoyed any of his novels since A Prayer for Owen Meany.) |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 08:54:39
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I just thought of another book that might make a very good movie - Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh. Marvelous novella and got me hooked on her writing and I took The Cutting Room out of the library, which would also make an excellent movie - very dark and brooding about snuff-porn and homosexuality. But now that my library has closed down, I had to buy her last book, The Bullet Trick, which I'm really looking forward to reading soon.
(I'm forcing myself to read John Irving's latest novel Until I Find You, and I'm not sure I should be suffering like this. Haven't enjoyed any of his novels since A Prayer for Owen Meany.)
Your library has closed down?!!!!   
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 09:07:36
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Originally posted by StaLean
I'm sure this has always been an activity for finding new material; I just think it is becoming more mainstream in the acting community.
Well, until comparitively recently -- you have to go back to the origin of United Artists in 1919 [founded by DW Griffiths, Douglas Fairbanks, his wife, Mary Pickford, and Chaplin] before actors ever again had such power over what got made. Prior to that Fairbanks had already established his own production company. The Hollywood studio system [which had many wonderful qualities] was never big on human rights, and flourished largely at the expense of what they considered to be expendable actors, most of whom had absolutely no say in the films they made. There were always a handful of exceptions [Mae West, Bette Davis et al], but compared with today, no contest. At last big b.o. actors, like rock stars, have a weapon to protect themselves themselves against middle-man exploitation. They hire development execs to source material from them, and it's these bunnies and their hirelings who do all the reading. Not saying the actors themselves don't, but there's usually a front-line weeding out the dross.
The fact that so many of them make such disasterous choices is another issue  
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 10:09:13
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Your library has closed down?!!!!
Yes, our British Council Library closed down - the Jerusalem branch was the last holdout after they closed the Haifa and Tel Aviv ones. There are now no more places to borrow good books in English here, and even though they gave their collection to another library, their hours are such that we can never get to them. Really horrid, I can tell you. There's still the American Cultural Center (yes, I know, oxymoron) but they don't carry fiction, for some reason - go figure.
I found a place on the internet where we can swap books in English around the country, but unfortunately, most of the stuff on offer isn't all that good. For the moment, I have a good backlog of books on my shelves that I haven't read yet, but my husband reads much faster than I do, and he'll be needing something much sooner than I will. Buying from Amazon.co.uk is one way, but the shipping to Israel is prohibitive, so we ship to my husband's sister in Amsterdam and wait until she comes to get the books we want. That's why I'm hoping we can make it to the FWFR meet this summer - so we can hit the bookstores!
By the way, getting back on topic, I wonder why they don't make movies out of any of the Joanna Trollope books.
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 10:37:05
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
By the way, getting back on topic, I wonder why they don't make movies out of any of the Joanna Trollope books.
Other People's Children was made into a BBC tv serial, and several have been adapted for radio. i think the problem with making them into films comes because her emphasis is so much on the inner life of the characters within the context of pretty pedestrian plots [not necessarily a bad thing] -- and that's difficult to make visual. You may be able to get her audio books from the BBC.
Didja know she writes historical romances under the name Caroline Harvey?
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 10:53:41
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
By the way, getting back on topic, I wonder why they don't make movies out of any of the Joanna Trollope books.
Other People's Children was made into a BBC tv serial, and several have been adapted for radio. i think the problem with making them into films comes because her emphasis is so much on the inner life of the characters within the context of pretty pedestrian plots [not necessarily a bad thing] -- and that's difficult to make visual. You may be able to get her audio books from the BBC.
You may be right about that. I suppose that's why Pilcher adapts easily. Another one that could adapt well is Katie Fforde - all very visual books, and the last one I read about the city-girl moving to the country to help with the family's antique business - "Flora's Lot" - would adapt very nicely. The books are pure "chick-lit" but she has some interesting settings - like the one on the long boats - and I always appreciate that her protagonists are chubby women who get the great guy in the end, and often the skinny girls end up lonely - poetic justice I tell you!
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Didja know she writes historical romances under the name Caroline Harvey?
Yes, I did, but I've never read any of them. Are they any good, or are they 'bodice-rippers'?
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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 11:01:45
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady(I'm forcing myself to read John Irving's latest novel Until I Find You, and I'm not sure I should be suffering like this. Haven't enjoyed any of his novels since A Prayer for Owen Meany.)
Yes i found this too. Owen Meany sort of ruined all his other novels 'cause it was what he had been striving for up to then. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 11:14:10
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Didja know she writes historical romances under the name Caroline Harvey?
Yes, I did, but I've never read any of them. Are they any good, or are they 'bodice-rippers'?
Sorry, never read 'em myself ... just a snippet about her I happened to know. That, and that she used to work in the Foreign Office before she started writing. And, of course, that she's a descendant of Anthony 
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Beanmimo
"August review site"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 11:27:37
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The Life of Pi (but i do not see how)
Get a brilliant film-maker to direct it....
Can't wait.
Excellent choice of director. 
Great, all hail Richard Parker.... I'm about thirty pages from the end so no spoilers yet thanks!! |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 15:00:45
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Originally posted by R o � k G o 7 f
Even given the abysmal record of Alan Moore graphic novels made into into movies ("League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", "From Hell", "Swamp Thing", "V for Vendetta"), I'm still optimistic that a really great screenplay could make "Watchmen" a major film.
V for Vendetta and From Hell were fine.
Personally, I thought From Hell was doo-doo, and not because the Ripper "theory" proposed by it is rubbish. But that's just me. V for Vendetta was entertaining. |
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demonic
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 15:23:20
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| I have deep foreboding for the film of "Watchmen" - it's been through the development mill, and currently is in pre-production with Zach Snyder, he of "Dawn of the Dead" and "300". Not exactly the ideal sort of film-maker for the most intricately plotted and complex character piece in graphic novels. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 15:46:28
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady(I'm forcing myself to read John Irving's latest novel Until I Find You, and I'm not sure I should be suffering like this. Haven't enjoyed any of his novels since A Prayer for Owen Meany.)
Yes i found this too. Owen Meany sort of ruined all his other novels 'cause it was what he had been striving for up to then.
Well, neither "The Fourth Hand" nor "A Widow for One Year" were as hard to read as "Son of the Circus", but none of those moved me - I didn't care enough about the characters to get emotionally involved with what happend to them. If an author can't get his reader to care about his characters, he'll lose the reader.
Perhaps my tastes have changed, but I'm finding all this background stuff in this novel to be tedious and am hoping that the pace will pick up soon, or I'm going to just stop reading it. And so far, I'm not all that sympathetic to his main character - but he is only about 8 or 9 years old so far in the book. We shall see.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 15:50:57
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And, of course, that she's a descendant of Anthony
I know, but totally uncultured me - I haven't read any of his work.
(I should, I know I should... don't hate me, 'kay?)
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