Thunderous
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Post by Thunderous on Aug 29, 2007 20:48:21 GMT -5
...would be awesome. The book is amazingly descriptive; the whole time I was reading it felt like watching a movie. Moreso, I think, than with just about any book I've ever read. Also, don't kill me, but I think Ellen Page would make a good Moa. Hehe
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Post by zemira on Aug 30, 2007 8:07:41 GMT -5
Don't know who Ellen Page is, but I'm sure certain studios would have fun destroying the book. >_< That being said, with a HUGE (and I mean HUUUUUUGE) budget, the movie would at least look cool.
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Post by shyviolet on Aug 30, 2007 10:00:41 GMT -5
It would look cool until something had to move. Rather like most of Chris's books I think it would get butchered as a film because of all the CG you'd need. But yeah, with a big enough budget (say, the entire GNP of America) it would be supernatural! ;D
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Post by zemira on Aug 30, 2007 10:19:08 GMT -5
Right, exactly! America doesn't need its money! I'll gladly donate every cent America has to Chris Wooding for movies. ^_^
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Post by shyviolet on Aug 30, 2007 11:26:29 GMT -5
W00t! If I weren't going to need Britain's money when I take over the world, I would offer up our money too.
I would like to see how a film would do the fear-inducing spheres inside the fulcrum.
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Post by Maliris on Aug 30, 2007 13:17:41 GMT -5
And what the fulcrum would look like... when it unfolds.
I guess it´d be rather challenging. There is so much explained not by dialogue but by the omniscient narrator. Putting some things like Vago´s or Rail´s feelings in dialogue would ruin the movie because it would be slightly corny. xD Other than that? I´d love to watch Storm Thief on the big screen. X3 But it would have to be excellent. And yes, would devour whole nations´ budgets. But what do they need that for anyway? Warfare?
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Post by shyviolet on Aug 30, 2007 13:54:00 GMT -5
Oooh! I'd totally forgotten about the way it unfolds! I would LOVE to see that. I'd love to see how they'd do Kilatas (f that's the right name) as well.
It's true about the omnicient narration... It would be very hard to translate into film. Especially with Vago, because his emotions are so childish, but he looks so huge and scary.
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Thunderous
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Post by Thunderous on Aug 30, 2007 14:02:57 GMT -5
Some of the omnicient narration could be done in dialogue, or possibly a prologue... As for the feelings and emotions of the characters, they could do some by dialoge, but a lot of it could be simply... left out. *dodges thrown tomatoes* But tons of good movies have been made from books that left out things like that... just look at Lord of the Rings, best film of the decade and so many things are barely mentioned.
I just thought because the story was so visual, some moviemaker somewhere could really have fun with it. Imagine a long shot follwing the seabird as Orokos becomes visible through the mist, zooming in to the breathtaking skyline, into that one tower where we first see Vago, hunched in a corner with all his awesomeness.
To zemira: The name in the first post is a link... I wouldn't have known her either, only I just saw her in X-Men III.
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Post by zemira on Aug 30, 2007 14:10:00 GMT -5
Aha, I see. ^_^
Well, if it were made into a movie, we'd better still have Chris doing the script. I'd hate to see anyone else make his movies. >:-( Rawr.
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Post by shyviolet on Aug 30, 2007 16:31:28 GMT -5
@ Thunderous
In LotR is wasn't really emotional stuff that was left out, it was actual events. It has a different impact on the story, I think.
@ zemira
Would Chris want to write it though? I don't know if he's the kind of guy who likes to revisit his work. I mean, I know he was working on an Alaizabel movie, film, but he's never mentioned a project like that since. Maybe we should ask him...
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Post by camybaby on Aug 30, 2007 17:39:25 GMT -5
Ellen Paige is a great actress, she was in x-men 3 and the film hard candy (which is a really good film, the script writer of that should have got an oscar. Check it out, though it deals with things that some people may find distressing, (pedophilia). Though having read in this thread about the narrative in the storm thief makes me not want to read it since I hate omniscient narration (since its usually used as a cheap way out of characterization and world building. Not to mention it destroys my suspension of disbelief)
Didn't Chris write that the alizabel script would be different from the book since he would find it tedious if it was basically the same? Or something to that effect. Which is good in a way since it means that Chris is satisfied with his work and has said everything he has needed to say.
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Post by bluephoenix on Aug 30, 2007 22:29:10 GMT -5
I think this Ellen person looks really good for the part. Almost exactly as I saw moa!!
Also, all his work is so decriptive...its what I adore about him...one of many things, I suppose.
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Post by shyviolet on Aug 31, 2007 2:41:34 GMT -5
@ camybaby If you hate omnicient narration, how come you're such a huge Wooding fan? He uses it to some degree in all his books.
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Post by camybaby on Aug 31, 2007 8:15:24 GMT -5
Omniscient narration I can look past if, like in the braided path trilogy is used sparingly. I’ve seen it used badly so many times in others authors’ works that I have become allergic to it. I can however look past it (or pretend that the mysterious narrator is a main character in the book). The things that I love about Chris’s writing greatly outweigh the things I dislike.
In my opinion the biggest crime an author can do is use dues ex machinas (yes I’m looking at you Robert Jordan!). Thankfully Wooding hasn’t done that.
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Post by shyviolet on Aug 31, 2007 10:58:41 GMT -5
Well, by definition a deus ex machina is an 'artificial' addition that hurries along a usually unconvincing ending, so any good writer should be able to avoid them.
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