(urth) The Soundtrack
peter heyneman
pheyneman at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 10 07:28:28 PDT 2007
I'm rereading the Long Sun now and imagining it as a mini-series for HBO
with a quirky soundtrack of Jen-Michel Jarre and Kraftwerk and Coco-Rosie
and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and stuff played on electronic toy
instruments from the 70s. It relies on narrator/narrative ambiguity less
than most other of his series and has some cool fight scenes and a love
story. So there.
--Peter
>From: Daniel D Jones <ddjones at riddlemaster.org>
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>Subject: Re: (urth) The Soundtrack
>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:55:08 -0500
>
>On Monday 09 April 2007 19:14, Mark Lewin wrote:
> > I doubt if if anyone on this list disagrees with me that none of GW's
>books
> > would make a good film.
> >
> > What ... you do? Which one?
>
>That depends a great deal on precisely what you mean when you say "...a
>good
>film." I think most people would agree that TBOTNS wouldn't _translate_
>well
>to film. It would be impossible to capture a great deal of what makes that
>series work in a visual medium. However, that's not at all the same thing
>as
>saying that TBOTNS would not make a good film. With the correct choice of
>screen writer and director, it could make a good film. But the film
>wouldn't
>tell the same story that Wolfe told in his books. (And, of course, with
>poor
>choices as writer and director, it could be made into the most God awful
>pap
>ever to grace the silver screen.)
>
>That being said, I think some of his "lesser" works would translate well to
>film. I can't think of anything vital in "Pandora" which would be lost in
>film. Same with "Devil in a Forest."
>
>The events of the Latro series would probably translate well but I'm not
>sure
>that the same sense of Latro's memory loss could be maintained throughout a
>film as are present in the prose. Again, they could make a great film but
>I'm not sure that it would tell the same story.
>
>"Fifth Head" is a more interesting proposition. It would be tricky to pull
>off, particularly the third book, but I think the right writer and director
>could make an absolutely amazing trio of films from that series.
>
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