Posted by Rodger Whitlock on March 23, 1999 at 14:31:25:
In Reply to: Re: Plots / Movies posted by teaser on March 22, 1999 at 20:44:20:
Teaser wrote:
> Personally, I dream of making a four-part animated miniseries
> of Planet of Adventure. This is an ingenious, compelling story
> with a remarkable tone and visual quality. The villains are
> entertaining, the aliens are colorful, the landscapes are
> beautfully harsh, and the hero's goal is simple and compelling.
> Animation could really free up the visual qualities of the
> story. I see a sort of washed-out quality to the colors, not
> as bright as new-age Disney.
> Would y'all prefer live action?
One scene in Planet of Adventure always brings my heart to my throat: it's when Vance describes the cog (sailing ship) in the beer-colored light of Tschai's sun.
It's long been my thought that PofA would make a wonderful movie played straight -- and with the dialogue in an imaginary language. Vance's descriptive powers are so great that you wouldn't need understandable dialog to get the gist of the story.
His characters are always making sidelong glances at one another, uttering hisses of dismay. These are universals.
But Hollywood would find such an approach so foreign to their usual idiocies that I have no hope of such a thing happening.