tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post567999448322866318..comments2024-01-04T04:01:35.574+08:00Comments on Wandering through the Shelves: Thursday Movie Picks #174: An Adaptation (of a book, comic, game etc that hasn't been adapted) You Want to SeeWandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02942463921185187112noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-21918665163878726632017-11-17T03:38:41.293+08:002017-11-17T03:38:41.293+08:00A Cast of Killers - I don't know any of the na...A Cast of Killers - I don't know any of the names you mention, but I agree, this could be such an interesting movie. Has no one really tried to make one before? Possibly it fell through in the early stages? I mean Hollywood loves movie about Hollywood right?Wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02942463921185187112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-28325482993760271752017-11-13T23:09:08.030+08:002017-11-13T23:09:08.030+08:00I've heard of a few of these but read none. Th...I've heard of a few of these but read none. The one in letter form intrigues me the most, that format is usually compelling. I've read three at least-84 Charing Cross Road, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and The Stone Diaries, that I've loved. <br /><br />Of the others Local Girl Missing sounds like it's very well suited for adaptation. <br /><br />This was a fun exercise in wish fulfillment I'd love to see these three books adapted for the silver screen.<br /><br />How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater (2005)-Comic novel by Marc Acito tells the tale of young sexually confused Jersey teen Edward Zanni and the lengths he goes to his senior year when his divorced father marries gold-digging shrew Dagmar and she blocks his way to attending Julliard. Helping Edward are his group of very resourceful and game friends, free spirit Paula D’Angelo, enterprising Natie Nudelman (affectionately called Cheesehead), Edward’s sometime girlfriend, perky blonde Kelly, exotic Persian transfer student Ziba and football jock Doug Grabowski who’s more at home with the theatre geeks than his sport cronies. Together, with the sometime reluctant help of Paula’s dotty Aunt Glo, they scheme to defeat the rapacious Dagmar and make Edward’s musical dream come true.<br /><br />The Queen’s Man (2000)-In the year 1193 young Justin de Quincy witnesses the murder of a tradesman on the road from Winchester to London. As he lies dying the man hands Justin a letter and begs him to find a way to get it to the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Letter in hand he’s brought into Eleanor’s presence and her confidence leading to a world of intrigue and danger as Eleanor plots to save her favorite son, Richard the Lionhearted whilst her grasping younger son John schemes to seize the throne. Great historical detail and an engaging lead character makes a good adventure.<br /><br />A Cast of Killers (1986)-In 1982 author Sidney Kirkpatrick is commissioned to write a biography of King Vidor, director of classics The Big Parade and Stella Dallas among many others. Delving into Vidor’s papers he discovered a trove of research that the director and his good friend former silent star Colleen Moore had compiled on the unsolved 1922 murder of film director William Desmond Taylor. Putting the Vidor bio aside for the moment Kirkpatrick built on the existing research and plunged into the jazz mad world of the twenties where men with vague pasts such as Taylor’s could rise to the level of respected film director. Along the way he acquaints the reader with the many people, shaded by Vidor’s intimate knowledge of the film community of the time, involved in the case including the two stars, comic legend Mabel Normand and supposedly innocent Mary Miles Minter, whose careers were destroyed in the scandal and the massive cover-up and graft that protected the killer, whom Vidor deduced, for decades. A fascinating story begging to be filmed.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-3709477049955346632017-11-11T01:34:33.423+08:002017-11-11T01:34:33.423+08:00I haven't read any of these but they sound goo...I haven't read any of these but they sound good, especially Survivor.Sonia Cercahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07313734872038610058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-13176786649059725352017-11-10T21:47:56.901+08:002017-11-10T21:47:56.901+08:00If you like atmospheric thrillers, then I think yo...If you like atmospheric thrillers, then I think you'll enjoy Local Girl Missing.<br /><br />I've read The Collector too. Well it does share the basic premise, you could say Room did too, but everything else is pretty different. The Collector for example has two narrators. Which does make it doubly horrifying because I think halfway through it the story restarts again with the second narrator. Stolen I think is interesting because it explores Stockholm Syndrome. Anyway both books make a good book version of a double feature. Wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02942463921185187112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-62509069593439712572017-11-10T21:22:14.102+08:002017-11-10T21:22:14.102+08:00Looking for Alaska is great, read it if you have a...Looking for Alaska is great, read it if you have a chance. Stolen too and yes it is.Wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02942463921185187112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-11216276844421201062017-11-10T20:29:55.597+08:002017-11-10T20:29:55.597+08:00I haven’t read any of these but the last book sou;...I haven’t read any of these but the last book sou;da good and I love mysteries. Stolen sounds bit too close The Then Collector which was horrifyingBirgithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439720285857050428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-19652322281707173812017-11-10T11:50:02.661+08:002017-11-10T11:50:02.661+08:00I've heard a lot of good things about Looking ...I've heard a lot of good things about Looking For Alaska, but I Haven't read any of these. Stolen sounds horrifying.Brittani Burnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07975067259283007280noreply@blogger.com