(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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>To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
>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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