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I've had some fun on 'The Movies You've Seen' thread.
I'd like to expand on that a bit.
This thread is for discussing the films you want to see. Imagine that you are the head of a production company, or even LFL. What would you green-light? Why?
Any genre. Remakes, loose adaptations and re-imaginings are game.
I'll start:
I have two. They would be based upon the greatest and the most important SF novels (IMHO) in all history.
The Greatest: OSC's 'Ender's Game' (1984). The captivating parable of childhood and young adulthood; of how the environment controls our development far more than we can effect it. Produced with modern FX, and in a way that is true to the tone of the novel, it could be a stunning, surpassing achievement.
The Most Important: GO's '1984'. It's frighteningly ironic that, just when it is more vital than ever before, this magnificent work is being removed from HS and university reading lists. Intrusive technology that can leave all of us completely vulnerable, organizations throughout the west that dare to be far more collectivist than at any time during the cold war, corporations that are perfectly willing to find excuses to intrude or dissemble on behalf of those with the most controlling impulses, all of these parties willing to continue down the ever steepening slope, and the word "terrorism" to "justify" it all.
The greatest misconception about '1984' is that GO was warning us about what could happen. That is true, but only part of the truth. Rather, he was alerting us to what is happenning- at this moment- at any modern moment. He was describing the inborn and conditioned mechanisms that drive people to use modern techniques to seek power-UNLIMITED POWER-without end. WS tells his torturer that there are more rational ways of dealing with him and he is promptly tormented yet more for missing the point entirely. The point is that, for people who start down the path of controlling all in the name of some greater good, a point will be reached when it is no longer sufficient to hold potential power. At a point, only the exercise of actual power to intrude in the most minute and intimate ways in the life of another can be acceptable. "Power corrupts...." It was also a tale about the effect such total survaillance has upon the observed- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. There's no escape from it. The more intensive the observation, the more radical the course of the observed is altered. How utterly warping it is to the individuals trapped in such intolerably inhuman conditions.
I believe '84 would have to be re-imagined (the date, for one thing.) It would also have to appeal to a large audience. I'm thinking of an all CG animated "rockumentary." 2034. It is a tale about people removed from normal human capacities. They are dazed and laconic and "unreal". CG could be a virtue in such a setting. There would have to be more action and a faster pace. WS and Julia coud be in their early twenties. It could be the aftermath of the war on terrorism. It seems to me that the material also lends itself to some powerful potential hard rock lyrics and music.
Well, those are mine. :)