Why does Hollywood never adapt anything good?
Why does Hollywood never adapt anything good?
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After True Grit kino I'd like to see the Coen brothers take this novel on. True Grit was an amazing adaptation of the book. Also it was perfectly cast.
they do
they just fuck it up
leave our good books alone pls
Coen's are the only one who can do this justice
people like inurattu or however his name is spelled will just focus on the edgy shit and CG it the fuck up when it gets a little bit complicated to shoot
>Coen brothers
"no"
I enjoyed the movie version of Breakfast of Champions.
>inarritu
>CG
Have you seen True Grit or are you clueless?
The judge is impossible to cast
Yes, true grit is overrated garbage like the rest of their films
Andrew Dominik, director of Jesse James, is adapting Cities of the Plain.
You're wrong, OP.
I want period correct dialogue, SuperPanoVis landscape shots, 100% practical efffects, and a soaring orchestral soundtrack.
Basically True Grit but the hard R violence of the novel. Not that the violence in True Grit wasn't spot on.
>The judge is impossible to cast
I just imagine Brando's Colonel Kurtz
>film entire movie with ''natural light''
>insert a fucking cartoon bear in one pivotal scene
Say what you want about their other films, I prob agree with you on many of them but True grit was perfect. I think they have what it takes to do a very good job adapting period western novels.
Glenn Fleschler, the guy who played Errol Childress in the first season of True Detective. He's tall, fat, baby faced, and a shakespearean actor able to pull off Holden's line with conviction.
solid choice
Because its hard to adapt prose into visuals.
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas worked for me.
>true grit is overrated garbage like the rest of their films
>I prob agree with you on many of them
The absolute state of Sup Forums
A proper Blood Meridian adaptation would be amazing
> adapt the book litterally, no changes to dialogue, long segments of ambiance while they walk across the landscape
> 5-6 hours long
> pull no punches with gore
> film it all on 70mm IMAX film stock
> all on location,
> all practical effects, only use CGI to remove safety wires and shit
Why do plebs think adapting books is how you make good movies?
should they have gotten a real bear to maul some stuntman?
There was dialogue in Blood Meridian?
Ayy look what was in my captcha
There's so much potential for kino with Neuromancer but also so much potential for utter schlock. I want to see it adapted but I don't trust modern Hollywood to do it right.
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I reckon Mel Gibson could do it.
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>> 5-6 hours long
For what reason?
So that it'll bomb hard because no one would sit through such a long movie, but at least you can enjoy it a few months later when the rip is out and then brag about the amazing experience you had watching it on a big screen?
>There was dialogue in Blood Meridian
???
Yeah. Not much less than any other book. The difference is that in BM you only get objective descriptions, "the judge said x", "the kid did y" etc... you never get an inside look as to what anyone is thinking about. Stuff happens and it's described in great detail.
Which you'd think would make it easier than most books to adapt to screen. But the subject matter is pretty impossible to do and revive any kind of funding or audience.
Although I wonder how you'd film the ending. Because after 500 pages of super detailed description the last few pages are deliberately vague so you can't really tell what happened.
I used to be a part of a book club with 6 girls, one time they asked what I was reading (outside of the chosen book we just finished), and I'd just started Blood Meridian for the first time. Having no chosen book, we decided to make it the topic of our next discussion...none of them finished it and the next book club meeting never happened
Also Clancy Brown is the judge. I won't accept any other casting.
What about PTA? It seems up his alley
It's a long book, with lots of deliberately slow sections. Plus a lot of landscape porn.
5-6 hours isn't what I want, it was my estimate on how long you'd need to fit everything in and do it justice. Definetly need an intermission or two at the cinema.
Normie audiences wouldn't like it anyway, most people wouldn't make it through the first chapter without being put off by the writing style, and it's amazing how un-desentised most people are to violence.
It would be loved by small fanbase of film enthusiasts. The rest of the population would know it through gifs of the most gruesome sfx shots and a wrong aspect ratio clip of one of the Judges speeches on YouTube.
HBO miniseries when?
Mel likes schmaltzy stuff too much. Despite all their rawness and edge, Braveheart, Apocalypto, and Passion all feature a whole bunch of tackiness and almost Spielbergian Hollywoodness (Braveheart being the most schmaltzy and Apocalypto being the least).
>5-6 hours long
I love how bat shit stupid the ideas on this site are, sometimes