[ SECRET POST #3542 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3542 ⌋

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry. I know, you know, don't harsh the squee, or whatever, but they are fucking terrible books even if you set aside the didacticism and the terrible ideology. Just a morass of poor writing and completely clumsy, terrible edginess. I mean, if any fantasy books whatsoever are bad, these are bad.

[(Anonymous)]

A book that is largely stream of consciousness will be very hard (if not impossible) to film. "Streamlining" won't help and obviously neither will CGI. And that's usually what people are talking about when they say a book is unfilmable - when it relies more on prose and thoughts than dialogue and action.

[(Anonymous)]

I get that.

[(Anonymous)]

You suck

[philstar22]

No. I don't like her, and i hate anti-vaxxer ideas. But I would never wish anyone dead. That's awful.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

She is going to die eventually. That is what people do. It'd be ironic if she died from something that vaccines could have stopped.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it might help if there were some concept of what you mean by grossness here, and how it's not slut-shame-y. Because there tends to be a lot of overlap between those things.

[(Anonymous)]

Shows with focus on gay male couples exist though? I suppose no kids shows that I can think of, so there is that.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess if you change the plot (which many do anyway), or make something super arty and weird, yeah....

Space Odysesy 2001 anyone 🐒🌞🌘🌚🌜🌚🐒🐒💃

[(Anonymous)]

😒

[(Anonymous)]

Nothing is technically unfilmable, but like

There are things that are incredibly, incredibly difficult to adapt, and where adapting them would challenge our notions of narrative film

[(Anonymous)]

They've filmed Joyce's Ulysses, more than once. I think to be truly unfilmable it would have to be a book that was all over the place in contents, theme, and characterization so that no coherent narrative could be found no matter how hard a person tried. Chuck Wendig's Star Wars Aftermath, for example, is a prime candidate for being unfilmable. Since it is also unreadable with a sane mind.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't wish her dead but I don't think it's inherently awful to say that there are people you wish were dead.

[ketita]

What anon above me said. I don't think it has to do with CGI or even plot convolutions, but with types of information that are transmitted in prose and in film completely differently.
I'm not saying it's impossible to make things work, but I think the amount of skill and artistry you'd need is above average, in order to really capture the essence of the book.

And you know what, even with streamlining plot - not every streamlined plot will make as good a movie as it did a book. The structure of the two is quite different.
Even among successful movie adaptations of books, the adaptations that are *as good* as the book stand out because of how rare they are.

[philstar22]

Uh, well, I enjoyed the first four books, but the rest of them are crap. And even in the first four, there are a lot of problems with the writing. I just enjoyed the worldbuilding enough to look past it.

[ketita]

Do you remember the chicken that was not a chicken.

[philstar22]

Everyone dies, but it is still not okay to wish someone dead.

[(Anonymous)]

The first three are okay, fairly standard fantasy runarounds with the politics more the standard brave rebel vs evil emperor. It is after that it takes a right swerve into Rand-Thiel land and it goes deeply wrong in virtually every single way.

[philstar22]

Judge Rinder! I have nothing productive to add other than that I love him. Though I like Judge Judy a bit more. They are the only two I really watch other than occasionally the People's Court.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes, in my opinion, its less a matter of can it be filmed, cause yeah it could be, but could it be filmed and still be true to the source material and actually good.

And I think some things just couldn't make the jump in medium and be good and not completely different.