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06-01-2009, 05:07 PM
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[MOVIE] Anansi Boys as a movie and why Amrerican Gods wont happen
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/11/17...s-wont-happen/
Mother fuck... Showtime needs to do something about American Gods. It's far too brilliant.
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06-01-2009, 06:54 PM
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I say yea on American Gods as a miniseries.
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06-02-2009, 05:04 AM
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It it happened at all, it would have to be a miniseries, but part of me just wants American Gods to be left alone.
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06-02-2009, 09:50 AM
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If it's done right, American Gods would be amazing. The problem is that a miniseries won't have the budget of a movie, and at the same time, for it to be a movie, the story would have to be seriously condensed.
American Gods is a sprawling epic. It wouldn't work as a single two hour movie, and would probably be too short for a trilogy. Also, there's really no place to break it into two movies.
Honestly, I'd just leave it as a book.
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06-07-2009, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by viscus
It it happened at all, it would have to be a miniseries, but part of me just wants American Gods to be left alone.
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Agreed. The "Stardust" movie already made me cringe...
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06-07-2009, 04:38 PM
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Eh I don't really like Anansi Boys that much, it's the whole mistaken identity/steal your girlfriend thing that I hate when I see it in books and movies, I had to stop reading the moment that brother stole his gf's virginity.
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06-08-2009, 05:22 AM
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Agreed. The "Stardust" movie already made me cringe...
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I really liked the Stardust movie. It wasn't great, but it was still quite enjoyable.
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06-08-2009, 10:45 AM
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I thought Stardust was great. In my opinion it's one of the few movies that is actually better than the book. I usually use it as an example of a movie which makes minor changes to the plot to allow it to work as a film, but still stays true to the soul of the movie. Tristan was also much more complex and likeable in the movie as opposed to the book, and the plot with the witches actually came to a climax instead of an anti-climax.
I appreciate what Gaiman was trying to do with the novel version of Stardust, but quite frankly there's a reason we don't write stories structured like fairy tales anymore: In a classic fairy tale the characters are usually hollow and the plot is usually insane and rambling. The screenplay managed to make all of the characters more complex, it seriously condensed the plot, and the story actually had an ending instead of just limping off and dying somewhere.
Plus Robert Deniro was awesome.
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06-08-2009, 12:49 PM
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I thought Stardust was great. In my opinion it's one of the few movies that is actually better than the book. I usually use it as an example of a movie which makes minor changes to the plot to allow it to work as a film, but still stays true to the soul of the movie. Tristan was also much more complex and likeable in the movie as opposed to the book, and the plot with the witches actually came to a climax instead of an anti-climax.
I appreciate what Gaiman was trying to do with the novel version of Stardust, but quite frankly there's a reason we don't write stories structured like fairy tales anymore: In a classic fairy tale the characters are usually hollow and the plot is usually insane and rambling. The screenplay managed to make all of the characters more complex, it seriously condensed the plot, and the story actually had an ending instead of just limping off and dying somewhere.
Plus Robert Deniro was awesome.
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My main gripe with the Stardust movie was the ending, actually. I liked how the novel had the sad, lonely star ending the novel. It gave the novel a sense of irony - since he saved her life, but she ended up living forever and being lonely - that the movie didn't have with the big happily-ever-after ending.
The Robert Deniro part confused me, actually. I felt it was kind of silly and unnecessary.
It wasn't a bad movie by any means, it just didn't really live up to my expectations - but I really enjoyed the novel as is, so I didn't think the story needed improving.
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