It needs to right director, though, and I'm not convinced Jackson's stylised FX movie instincts are right
I dunno, if he goes the Heavenly Creatures route it could be OK. (I haven't read TLB, though).
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Fiona - Jan 18, 2005 11:02:14 pm PST #7977 of 10001
Sean K - Jan 18, 2005 11:02:43 pm PST #7978 of 10001
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I'm not convinced Jackson's stylised FX movie instincts are right
After watching Heavenly Creatures, I'm absolutely certain PJ can do a movie about a dead girl and weird family dynamics, but I haven't read the novel myself, so I don't know if there's other things about the novel that would make it less of a good match for his style.
Sean K - Jan 18, 2005 11:03:11 pm PST #7979 of 10001
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Jim - Jan 18, 2005 11:15:58 pm PST #7980 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
It's Heavenly Creatures - and the incredibly overt evocation of the fantasy world - that makes me dread a Jackson Lovely Bones movie. It will only work if they pull back on the fantasy and make it suggestive rather than explicit. Which is not to say I don't like HC, of course.
Fiona - Jan 18, 2005 11:59:25 pm PST #7981 of 10001
and the incredibly overt evocation of the fantasy world
I didn't think that was HC's strength at all, though. These were, what, a couple of very brief sequences? Otherwise I thought he was extremely good at capturing the unspoken dynamic between the girls.
But, as I say not having read LB, it's not really possible for me to comment further....
Jim - Jan 19, 2005 1:39:40 am PST #7982 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
It's the mood. TLB is very limpid and Couplandesque (actionably Couplandesque, almost). My memory of HC is much more frantic, although it has beena while.
Jim - Jan 19, 2005 1:40:57 am PST #7983 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
The nearest I can think of, actually, to a film of how TLB should feel is the film of The Virgin Suicides or Ang Lee's Ice Storm. That mid-90s 70's suburban ennui subgenre.
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2005 3:18:00 am PST #7984 of 10001
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TLB is very limpid and Couplandesque
But...I love Coupland. I haven't read it and want to, having heard so many good things about it until now.
§ ita § - Jan 19, 2005 4:05:20 am PST #7985 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That mid-90s 70's suburban ennui subgenre.
I thought it was more ennui than anything else. And I don't quite mean that as a slam on the book. Just that Ice Storm had a tremendous tension that it lacked -- it felt, even during the "crime-solving" and re-enacting portions much slower.
I haven't see The Virgin Suicides, so I can't compare.
And there is room for fantasy, even if of the mundane sort.
Jim - Jan 19, 2005 4:11:34 am PST #7986 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
And there is room for fantasy, even if of the mundane sort
Oh, yeah, just make sure the fantastic elements take place "In a setting of clear reality".
It is a very static book, you're right.