[ SECRET POST #3542 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3542 ⌋

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Comments

[(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)]

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.

[kallanda_lee]

I guess that at some point it just becomes something entirely different though. And that's okay. But you can't in all honestly say it's really a film adaptation of the book, more like a film inspired by the book.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

This, very much. Really, any long chunk of first-person narration, especially if it's in someone's head, doesn't translate to the third-person narrative form of film too easily, especially as long voiceovers are not really the done thing anymore.

Other unfilmable aspects, of course, generally involve the ratings board (there are scenes in the novel of American Psycho that were never ever no way no how going to get filmed).

[morieris]

This reminded me of The Bartimaeus Trilogy. It's the titular demon's inner monologue that's amazing. I'd love to hear it as a voice over, but with all the talking, might as well just read the book eh.