<pre><tt><tt>From: Christopher Hettinger <<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182276771_4">telpeurion@hotmail.com</span>><br>Subject: (urth) Film Version of New Sun?<br>To: <<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; height: 1em; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="lw_1182276771_5">urth@urth.net</span>><br>Message-ID: <BAY143-W1720A3AC66FE655F1158F1C8120@phx.gbl><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Hello everyone,<br> <br>I have been reading through the Urth lists on occasion for some list <br>for quite some time now. However, I did not notice until tonight that it <br>was not all dead. That in mind, I decided to write posing a query for <br>you all. <br> <br>With the success of The <span style="border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182276771_6">Lord of the Rings</span>, many fantasy and science <br>fiction literary works are seeing new life on the big screen.<br><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182276771_7">Gene Wolfe</span>, although a critically acclaimed author by all means, is <br>completely unknown by anyone outside the box. I myself would not know GW <br>if I had not accidently found a complete hardcover edition of the Book <br>of the New Sun (The one with a close up on Severian in a twilight local <br>with frizzy hair and a six-pack of abs featured on the cover) in my <br>brother's box of old books. I have read the New Sun series three times <br>now, and I constantly feel like it could easily, if done right, be the <br>next big thing. There are just so many scenes beautifully articulated in <br>the book that could be displayed with greater ease in visual format.
The <br>Duel on the Sanguinary Fields, Vodalus' feast, Severian's adventure in <br>the House Absolute, the confrontation with the alzabo, the fight at <br>baldander's castle, and the whole battle in the north screams the word <br>"epic". Perhaps a movie format would not do the series justice, but I can <br>think of a Television mini-series easily accomplishing that. In th<br> at way, <br> you could still have all the hidden items littered throughout, <br>maintain the first-person narrative, and because of the former, have watchable <br>through repeated viewings.<br> <br>Bad idea? Probably I know, but hey, it would at least Mr. Wolfe some <br>more success that is due to him.<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Well, as much as I'd love to see it on the silver screen, I just don't see how <br>any director could possibly show Erebus or Abaia. I still don't understand the scene<br>in the Claw of the Conciliator where the giant
water-thing pops out of the water... <br>how would the general populous feel about it? It would be <span style="font-style: italic;">sacrilege </span>to leave <br>any of it out. <br> Patrick<br><br><br></tt></tt></pre> <p>
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