Posted by Dean McMillan on March 23, 1999 at 15:43:45:
In Reply to: Re: Plots / Movies posted by Rodger Whitlock on March 23, 1999 at 14:31:25:
This idea has merit. Though it might be something of a strain at feature length--even for us.
(And in this light, it's hard to say whether unsuspecting movie goers could submit to a steady diet of those niversals. ...With or without subtitles, more's the pity.)
: 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.