jane-charlotte
05-04-2007, 10:59 PM
If you were to adapt your favorite book to film (or scene from a book) how would you do it?
Book--
Scene--
How creative would you be--imagination abounds!
First, I would try to do a scene from Ann Radcliffe's The Italian. One of the first gothic novels of the 18th century, I would pick a scene that fully personified the symbolics of the gothic--there are many. The Italian is full of lush and meaningful scenery and action. It would be difficult to pick only one.
If not that, then I would do the departure from Thornfield scene from Jane Eyre. In it I would try to incorporate a lot of flash backs of Jane's childhood--all in warped colors of course, and also allow for both Rochester's and Bertha's past to show through as well. I would be tempted to use some notions from Wide Sargasso Sea in constructing Bertha, challenging the singular "mad, bad and brutish" perspective of the madwoman in the attic, but also lend Rochester some voice as well. "Let us not be the guardians of Silence" to either gender.
Anyways, express your thoughts if you so please.
Book--
Scene--
How creative would you be--imagination abounds!
First, I would try to do a scene from Ann Radcliffe's The Italian. One of the first gothic novels of the 18th century, I would pick a scene that fully personified the symbolics of the gothic--there are many. The Italian is full of lush and meaningful scenery and action. It would be difficult to pick only one.
If not that, then I would do the departure from Thornfield scene from Jane Eyre. In it I would try to incorporate a lot of flash backs of Jane's childhood--all in warped colors of course, and also allow for both Rochester's and Bertha's past to show through as well. I would be tempted to use some notions from Wide Sargasso Sea in constructing Bertha, challenging the singular "mad, bad and brutish" perspective of the madwoman in the attic, but also lend Rochester some voice as well. "Let us not be the guardians of Silence" to either gender.
Anyways, express your thoughts if you so please.