Posted by waheed khan on April 26, 1999 at 06:02:06:
In Reply to: PofA "played straight" w/ dialogue in "imaginary language" posted by Dean McMillan on March 23, 1999 at 15:43:45:
: 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.
hey maybe hollywood can make a series set in the dying earth world? that would allow for more scope