[ SECRET POST #2710 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2710 ⌋

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Comments

Good mediums for different genres?

[(Anonymous)]

There was a discussion a while back on what medium is best for horror here and that the responses were interesting. So I figured expanding the topic would be fun.

For slapstick, I think cartoons are the best because there's complete control of the all the elements and exaggeration comes with the territory.

Mystery is either novels or comics because you can retrace stuff and solve at your own pace.

Re: Good mediums for different genres?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think for the most part high fantasy does badly in movies. Movies have to be nice succinct stories, and a lot of high fantasy is just too broad for that. The only high fantasy movies that I think worked is LotR (and look how long those movies are!).

High fantasy works best in novels or computer/video games. Novels can be as long as the author needs, or can span into sequels as needed, and video games are expected to have several hours-worth of play in them, giving plenty of space for long expansive stories with lots of details.

Sword and sorcery (a little less mythic that High Fantasy and a bit more concentrated on the adventure and hack-and-slash aspects) is only a little more suited to movies, and even then, not by much. Attempts to remake sword-and-sorcery classics like Conan the Barbarian have fallen a bit flat. I also think S&S does well in computer games, I mean Dungeons and Dragons is more S&S than HF, and one of my all-time favourite computer games, Baldur's Gate, is a D&D game (Forgotten Realms).

Sci-fi does better onscreen, so long as someone isn't trying to adapt a novel that has a huge broad story akin to the sort often in HS novels.

Modern/urban fantasy and sci-fi that is like fifteen minutes into the future (basically it looks identical to current day) are a lot more suited to movies, and TV for that matter.

I am surprised at the apparent success of Game of Thrones as a TV series, since it seems to fall right in the middle of the "unfilmable" area of fantasy, but maybe it manages to hold a huge story because it's not restricted to 2-4 hours of screen-time to do it in.