Posted by Guy Bergeron on December 30, 1996 at 19:53:22:
In Reply to: Re: If you were adapting Vance... posted by Mick Scannell on December 11, 1996 at 06:55:56:
: : But seriously, I don't thin that Hollywood could do any of the Cugel stories - the main character is just a little too amoral for modern audiences. They couldn't begin to empathize with a protagonist that rapes women and steals and kills for personal profit or revenge.
: While it seems that Cugel's rougish attributes are always in the spotlight, his benevolent side doesn't seem to get a look-in; those that have aided him during his sojourns were safe from his larceny, and most of the time the succor given to him was reciprocated; the old buzzard who fashioned the stone sunbathing columns in CS, for example, or the leader of pilgrims who Cugel tricks into crossing the Silver Desert (upon being ordered to save his own skin by the entrapped pilgrim, Cugel responds "I find myself spurred to quixotic folly!" and drives off the savages with blue concentrate); Bazzard and his four fathers. Those that have sought to fool or bring woe to ol' Cug soon learn the folly of their mistake bigtime!
: Even the foul Faucelme, who's altruism was all a front for the waylaying of travellers, was saluted by Cugel as he floats away on a purloined four-poster : "Faucelme, for all of your deeds or misdeeds, I salute you!", or something like that.
: Regards,
: Mick
: Lyonesse would be an incredible movie, with, romance, magic, terror, humor galore. Compared to it, Legend would taste like pablum.