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Dec. 19th, 2011 03:06 pmWas looking on amazon at the handful of Truffaut movies I haven't seen, in case someone ends up giving me a gift certificate, as is traditional - The Green Room is based on two(!) Henry James stories, "Beast in the Jungle" and "Altar of the Dead."
I know Rashomon's based on two Akutagawa stories (the title one pretty tangentially), but jeez. And isn't Miller's Crossing combining elements of a couple Hammett books? Rivette did even weirder stuff with James in Celine and Julie Go Boating, mixing him with contemporary things purely Rivette-writ. Why not adapt and blend stories by two different authors, at that point? The Tempest and The Dead, Jane Eyre and Dune, Prometheus Unbound and Cold Comfort Farm...I guess these recent, silly classic/horror hybrids do pretty much that.
Though I did use to daydream about a sort of operatic/masque [film] adaptation of Paradise Lost, to some extent via State of Innocence, but full of digressions about Renaissance science and scientists, the philosophers who refuted all the arguments for or about God used by Milton, the revisions of PL by Romantics. Not in Greenaway's style, but with that much going on. (Hadn't yet read Pullman.) The kind of daydream that contributed the more dubious elements to Tree of Life, but fun to have.
I know Rashomon's based on two Akutagawa stories (the title one pretty tangentially), but jeez. And isn't Miller's Crossing combining elements of a couple Hammett books? Rivette did even weirder stuff with James in Celine and Julie Go Boating, mixing him with contemporary things purely Rivette-writ. Why not adapt and blend stories by two different authors, at that point? The Tempest and The Dead, Jane Eyre and Dune, Prometheus Unbound and Cold Comfort Farm...I guess these recent, silly classic/horror hybrids do pretty much that.
Though I did use to daydream about a sort of operatic/masque [film] adaptation of Paradise Lost, to some extent via State of Innocence, but full of digressions about Renaissance science and scientists, the philosophers who refuted all the arguments for or about God used by Milton, the revisions of PL by Romantics. Not in Greenaway's style, but with that much going on. (Hadn't yet read Pullman.) The kind of daydream that contributed the more dubious elements to Tree of Life, but fun to have.
