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Cast a Book for Film
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bobbyburns
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is this just a fantasy, or do the directors and actors have to be alive at the moment?
novella
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bobbyburns said:
Yay, bobby's here!
It can be anyone, even not an actor. Lou Reed as the new Mr. Kotter? Do you want Bette Davis to play your mum? benaffleck could play yourself, as we discussed. ohohoh, where will Charlton Heston fit?? You're going to have directors?
Anyway, my thread got stolen, over to here:
http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?p=67019#post67019
bobbyburns
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whatever happened to ...
imitation is the highest form of flattery?
imitation is the highest form of flattery?
bobbyburns
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ok, here's what I've got ...
as I see it, gravity's rainbow was written for the silver screen. it's got a little something in it for just about everyone. think eyes wide shut meets duck soup meets apocalypse now meets triumph of the will, then you might understand a little bit of it. it would have an all-star cast and a team of directors to knock the socks off leonard maltin's ass. john cleese playing the part of geoffrey "pirate" prentice; marlon brando playing captain blicero; slim pickins as major marvy; arnold schwarzenegger as tchitcherine; riyuichi sakamoto and yukihiro takahashi as takeshi and ichizo, the komical kamikazes; a young robert forster playing our hero, tyrone slothrop; and the baldwin brothers as major marvy's castrated testicles. teaming up to direct this opus would be stanley kubrick (paths of glory), misumi kenji (lone wolf and cub) and sam peckinpah (the wild bunch, straw dogs).
as I see it, gravity's rainbow was written for the silver screen. it's got a little something in it for just about everyone. think eyes wide shut meets duck soup meets apocalypse now meets triumph of the will, then you might understand a little bit of it. it would have an all-star cast and a team of directors to knock the socks off leonard maltin's ass. john cleese playing the part of geoffrey "pirate" prentice; marlon brando playing captain blicero; slim pickins as major marvy; arnold schwarzenegger as tchitcherine; riyuichi sakamoto and yukihiro takahashi as takeshi and ichizo, the komical kamikazes; a young robert forster playing our hero, tyrone slothrop; and the baldwin brothers as major marvy's castrated testicles. teaming up to direct this opus would be stanley kubrick (paths of glory), misumi kenji (lone wolf and cub) and sam peckinpah (the wild bunch, straw dogs).
novella
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oh bobby,
You are insane. Mad as a rabid bat. What can we make of this mental linguini with hot red pepper flakes and fingernail-clippings? Pass the bourbon.
Well, now. Do you have room for Charlton Heston, perhaps as Der Blecker the Teutonic Deity of Death? He will wear any costume, even just a helmet!
Now I am afraid that it will come true. Who will play the dogs? How many dogs are in the budget? **** the budget! This could be the end of film as we know it.
You are insane. Mad as a rabid bat. What can we make of this mental linguini with hot red pepper flakes and fingernail-clippings? Pass the bourbon.
Well, now. Do you have room for Charlton Heston, perhaps as Der Blecker the Teutonic Deity of Death? He will wear any costume, even just a helmet!
Now I am afraid that it will come true. Who will play the dogs? How many dogs are in the budget? **** the budget! This could be the end of film as we know it.
bobbyburns
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I like to destroy things that are beautiful, because they make me sad.
bobbyburns
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are you ready for another?
I'm sitting here still trying to imagine a Kubrick/Peckinpah production, now that would be something worth watching!
mr_michel
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let me give it a try
blindness: susan sarandon for the woman, tim robins for her husband, ray charles for the blind man. mira sorvino for the prostitute, steve buscemi for the first blind, and maybe a young katharine ross for his wife, then you always want charlton heston in a movie like this, so he would be good for a general, maybe ron livinstong for a soldier in the concentration camp.
oh yeah, and for the leader of the evil blinds tony todd (candyman), and sthephen root (newsradio) for the other blind who could read braile
then get saramago to write the script, hire paul anderson to direct, let him to rewrite the script into some bull***t, and fire him a week before start shooting, then bring back the original script and hire alex proyas to do all the action and chaos/desolation scenes, and mike nichols to do the rest of the scenes
oh, and maybe dig benjis grave for the dog, or just use a dog like the one in k-9
blindness: susan sarandon for the woman, tim robins for her husband, ray charles for the blind man. mira sorvino for the prostitute, steve buscemi for the first blind, and maybe a young katharine ross for his wife, then you always want charlton heston in a movie like this, so he would be good for a general, maybe ron livinstong for a soldier in the concentration camp.
oh yeah, and for the leader of the evil blinds tony todd (candyman), and sthephen root (newsradio) for the other blind who could read braile
then get saramago to write the script, hire paul anderson to direct, let him to rewrite the script into some bull***t, and fire him a week before start shooting, then bring back the original script and hire alex proyas to do all the action and chaos/desolation scenes, and mike nichols to do the rest of the scenes
oh, and maybe dig benjis grave for the dog, or just use a dog like the one in k-9
novella
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On the Road
Okay, On the Road time.
Dream cast:
Young John Cassavettes as Paradise/Kerouac, circa-1980 hyper Sean Penn as Moriarity/Cassady, Danny Bonaduce as A Guy in a Bar Getting Loaded, Jeff Goldblum as the young Allen Ginsberg, cameos by Charlie Parker and Bill Evans. Awesome cars.
Okay, On the Road time.
Dream cast:
Young John Cassavettes as Paradise/Kerouac, circa-1980 hyper Sean Penn as Moriarity/Cassady, Danny Bonaduce as A Guy in a Bar Getting Loaded, Jeff Goldblum as the young Allen Ginsberg, cameos by Charlie Parker and Bill Evans. Awesome cars.