I'm not much for fiction, but I really want to read Claire Messud's "The Emperor's Children." Reading the Slate review brought to mind Donna Tartt's "The Secret History," which came out like, forever ago (1992, to be precise). I loved that book way back then. Wonder if I'd like it now. Wonder why it hasn't been made into a film?
I think we can all agree that the great unfilmed novel is "A Confederacy of Dunces," though Victor will no doubt have five different dissents, three of them sensible. But you know, I can't believe that the BBC hasn't made miniseries out of Robertson Davies' "Cornish Trilogy" and/or his "Deptford Trilogy." What wonderful books they are.
Anyway, anybody who's had time to read the Messud novel, let us know what you think. Also, how about your nomination for a Book They Should Make Into a Film?
Claire Messud's novel
Tuesday August 29, 2006
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Several of Michael O'Brien's novels would be filmable, in theory; of course their very overt Roman Catholic commitments would make them abhorrent to Hollywood. Too bad for it. But can you imagine a film of, say, Eclipse of the Sun?
As long as we are playing around with It Never Could Happen, what about one of Lars Walker's novels, such as Wolf Time? Exciting story, plenty of opportunity for special effects, violent, fantastic... and, um, drenched in Christian conviction...>
I just thought of another one -- Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Though perhaps it would be too sprawling to be made into a movie.
Has anyone ever tried to make a movie of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy? Again, it might be too sprawling.
You know, for all the film adaptations of Homer and other stories from Greek myth and literature, I don't recall any attempts to film the Aeneid. Perhaps it would be too hard to do, since it would be hard to do it without all that stuff about Roman destiny.>
If Akira Kurosawa were still alive, he might have been able to direct a fantastic version of one of the Icelandic sagas, e.g. Grettir's Saga. He had such a feeling for bleak, weird landscapes in Throne of Blood, a sensibility that probably would have responded well to Iceland.
I would think that the filmability of the sagas would be considerable insofar as there is virtually no internal monologue in them; the "objective" style could work well for the camera. The "strong woman" characters would interest lots of people; and, of course, the violence. Definitely an art-house feel, though... not popular.
Does anyone agree that C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces is filmable?>
anon, only if "Till We Have Faces" is filmed by somebody like Peter Jackson.>
BTW, Peter Jackson is making a movie of "The Lovely Bones," right now.>
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