Comments | selenak: Talk about dream adaptions....

selenak

Talk about dream adaptions....

Dec 06, 2009 09:43

Recently, a friend of mine wondered in an aside what a Watchmen adaption by Orson Welles would have been like. Clearly, this was an idea of pure genius. Because Welles had both the absolute fearlessness and cheek, and while managing to infuriate half the fanbase before ruthlessly jettisoning some of the main characters along with subplots and ( Read more... )

brian bendis, orson welles, alfred hitchcock, alias, mad love, billy wilder, watchmen, chaplin

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ffutures December 6 2009, 08:49:41 UTC

Applause, especially for the last - I'm trying to write some dialogue for Jessica at the moment, I would LOVE to see Wilder's take on her.

selenak December 6 2009, 18:37:22 UTC

He's the king of dialogue and would so pull it off. (Not that, err, you don't as well, but without critisizing - Wilder was in a class of his own.)

lilacsigil December 6 2009, 08:55:57 UTC

Warren can be the Hitchcock blonde - in danger and outclassed physically! I think the Billy Wilder Alias would really pull off that tenuous relationship between hope and self-destruction that Bendis wrote so well.

Personally, I would want to see David Lean taking on any of the big Avengers cosmic battles!

selenak December 6 2009, 18:38:24 UTC

David Lean taking on the Avengers! That would of course be epic. Do you have any particular story in mind.

You're not wrong about Warren as a Hitchcock blonde.

resolute December 6 2009, 14:06:20 UTC

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh OH

Now I am utterly pining for these. Wow. :whimper:

resolute December 6 2009, 14:08:23 UTC

I mean, Stanwyck as Jessica? The horrific rape scenes with Jean and Mastermind, rendered by Hitchcock through the mores of the time?

Hmm. Luke Cage would have to be whitewashed, though. Jessica getting pregnant by a black man would have entirely different implications in the era, and not even Wilder could have pulled it off without THAT taking over the story.

selenak December 6 2009, 18:45:34 UTC

Jean and Mastermind, done by Hitchcock: I'm thinking of the sequence in Vertigo where Scottie makes Judy transform herself back into Madeline here. Only even worse. Though of course then Jean becomes more Marnie.

And Barbara Stanwyck, directed and scripted by Wilder, would so rock as Jessica.

Luke Cage: hm, yes, but if we ditch Stanwyck as Jessica but keep Billy Wilder as scriptwriter/director we can declare Wilder makes the movie in the early 90s (when he was still alive). In which case Luke Cage can stay the way he is.

resolute December 7 2009, 10:27:21 UTC

YES. The Vertigo scene, or the really intense abusive/manipulative scenes from Marnie. Now I am pining for this . . .

harmonyangel December 6 2009, 17:27:31 UTC

Oh, these are excellent ideas. I've never even read Mad Love, but that adaptation would be amazing.

selenak December 6 2009, 18:50:34 UTC

It's a very self contained story which is why I think it work so well as a movie. Plus the Joker and Harley with their deliberate vaudeville personas are ideal for a silent film as done by someone who really excels at the medium.

lakrids404 December 6 2009, 18:30:37 UTC

It sounds crazy enough, that it just might work!
Make it so