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28 Apr 2014, 5:12 pm
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Kraichgauer wrote:
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs. Even though David Cronnenberg had in fact made the movie back in the '80's, the fact is, it was more of a fictionalized account of the writing of the book. Naked Lunch would be impossible to film, as it goes from one hallucinogenic vignette to another, some of which make absolutely no sense, and many have been accused of being gay porn, without there being a clear, concise story.
A way a new Naked Lunch movie could work is with Richard Linklater directing and filming it in the same way he {Linklater} filmed A Scanner Darkly, that is by rotoscoping every single frame.
Hmmm.
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28 Apr 2014, 5:14 pm
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Kraichgauer wrote:
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs. Even though David Cronnenberg had in fact made the movie back in the '80's, the fact is, it was more of a fictionalized account of the writing of the book. Naked Lunch would be impossible to film, as it goes from one hallucinogenic vignette to another, some of which make absolutely no sense, and many have been accused of being gay porn, without there being a clear, concise story.
A way a new Naked Lunch movie could work is with Richard Linklater directing and filming it in the same way he {Linklater} filmed A Scanner Darkly, that is by rotoscoping every single frame.
Hmm.
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28 Apr 2014, 5:14 pm
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs. Even though David Cronnenberg had in fact made the movie back in the '80's, the fact is, it was more of a fictionalized account of the writing of the book. Naked Lunch would be impossible to film, as it goes from one hallucinogenic vignette to another, some of which make absolutely no sense, and many have been accused of being gay porn, without there being a clear, concise story.
A way a new Naked Lunch movie could work is with Richard Linklater directing and filming it in the same way he {Linklater} filmed A Scanner Darkly, that is by rotoscoping every single frame.
Hmm.
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06 May 2014, 1:26 am
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I think most of Lovecraft's works. It would be hard to capture the feelings of his work I would think.
Seconded. I know that a few attempts have been made...which should not have been.
With that being said, maybe some anime adaptations might work? (If things like Paprika got made, maybe anything's possible....)
06 May 2014, 7:15 am
conundrum wrote:
unit_00 wrote:
I think most of Lovecraft's works. It would be hard to capture the feelings of his work I would think.
Seconded. I know that a few attempts have been made...which should not have been.
With that being said, maybe some anime adaptations might work? (If things like Paprika got made, maybe anything's possible....)
I actually think they could be done successfully, but it would flop due to people going WTF. Lovecraft isn't for everyone and even if we appreciate it, others would just not be entertained with it in a visual media format.
I run into this with several anime. There are anime I appreciate and love, but others who may like the same or similar genre animation or live action can't stand it because it's to slow or too abstract. Lovecraft easily falls into this.
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06 May 2014, 5:34 pm
stardraigh wrote:
conundrum wrote:
unit_00 wrote:
I think most of Lovecraft's works. It would be hard to capture the feelings of his work I would think.
Seconded. I know that a few attempts have been made...which should not have been.
With that being said, maybe some anime adaptations might work? (If things like Paprika got made, maybe anything's possible....)
I actually think they could be done successfully, but it would flop due to people going WTF. Lovecraft isn't for everyone and even if we appreciate it, others would just not be entertained with it in a visual media format.
I run into this with several anime. There are anime I appreciate and love, but others who may like the same or similar genre animation or live action can't stand it because it's to slow or too abstract. Lovecraft easily falls into this.
I think Stuart Gordon has had some success with not exactly literal adaptions, but ones that were still good, such as Re_Animator, From Beyond, and Dagon. On top of that, the movie Cthulhu was a good retelling of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
