"Paradise Lost" Movie?

[astrum]

As many of you know, "Paradise Lost" is hailed as John Milton's magnum opus and one of the English language's greatest works of literature.


Well, there were talks about making "Paradise Lost" into a movie.


It seems as if the producer, "Legendary Pictures," has currently cancelled such plans, but who knows if they may reconsider?


Read more here: http://screenrant.com/paradise-lost-movie-canceled-legendary-pictures-kofi-150353/

[hannah_arendt]

It is very interesting and I hope that this project will be fullfilled:)

[chrisvia]

I've been hearing about this off and on for a couple years now. Last I heard (~a year ago), Bradley Cooper was in the casting mix. I am very ambivalent about a Hollywood adaptation of this monumental Titan of western literature.

[astrum]

I am very ambivalent about a Hollywood adaptation of this monumental Titan of western literature.


chrisvia,

Could you go into more details about your concerns?

[chrisvia]

I've been thinking about how to state this so as not to spark another huge battle of opinions over high and low culture. I think my ambivalence boils down to this: one the one hand, I'm interested to see how they end up adapting it; but on the other, I don't want my own immanent adaptation, constructed via the act of reading, challenged.

[MementoMori]

I thought about this quite a lot when I was reading Milton. If they were to do it I think they should make it a hand-drawn animated movie, set to music with no dialogue. Something like a scene from Fantasia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Oa3f-WFps). They could make it a series of vignettes, one set in Hell where we see the building of Pandemonium, one where Satan is journeying across the void, one in Eden, one showing the war in heaven, one showing the temptation and the fall, and finally one showing Adam and Eve walking hand in hand through the gates of Eden.

Unfortunately, it's not like that ever has a chance of happening.


Last I heard (~a year ago), Bradley Cooper was in the casting mix.

This is far more likely... :puke:

[astrum]

I imagine that it would be an expensive movie to make.

Might have been nice, though.

[Darcy88]

For me the greatness of Paradise Lost lies in the inimitable beauty of its poetry. I don't see how they could come close to capturing that on screen. But if it had an amazing director, set designer and cast it could be a great film.

[hannah_arendt]

For me the greatness of Paradise Lost lies in the inimitable beauty of its poetry. I don't see how they could come close to capturing that on screen. But if it had an amazing director, set designer and cast it could be a great film.

I agree but it would be a very interesting experiment.

[astrum]

If the producers pulled it off, it could be as big as "The Sound of Music" or "Titanic."

It would truly be something.

[PeterL]

The more I think of this, the funnier it becomes. If it will be made into a movvie, I will not see the movie. I don't believe that it could be done anywhere near to the poem, but it would be easy to turn it into a farce.

[cafolini]

It's obsolete for box offices of today. People that want to lose money are better off risking it with more contemporary views.

[astrum]

It's obsolete for box offices of today. People that want to lose money are better off risking it with more contemporary views.



Do you not think that certain themes (such as man's creation, resisting temptation, and obedience to God) are timeless and eternally fascinate us?

[cafolini]

No. I think that creation is obsolete, resisting temptation also, and also obedience to God. But they really have little to do with religion, which is timeless acceptance of the mystery of life. We live by His Grace. We don't have to think of obeying God. Religion is the fact that we don't know enough and we obey whether we like it or not. We will never know enough based on facts. With facts we evolve and achieve progress in knowledge. But that knowledge has little to do with the timeless mystery of life. And time is not timeless. It moves only forward. Religion is what's timeless.
It has little to do with fascination.

I should add that giving God a gender is already too much for what we know. But we speak figuratively in that sense. God has no gender that we know of.

[astrum]

No. I think that creation is obsolete, resisting temptation also, and also obedience to God. But they really have little to do with religion, which is timeless acceptance of the mystery of life. We live by His Grace. We don't have to think of obeying God. Religion is the fact that we don't know enough and we obey whether we like it or not. We will never know enough based on facts. With facts we evolve and achieve progress in knowledge. But that knowledge has little to do with the timeless mystery of life. And time is not timeless. It moves only forward. Religion is what's timeless.
It has little to do with fascination.

I should add that giving God a gender is already too much for what we know. But we speak figuratively in that sense. God has no gender that we know of.


I'm not sure that I understand you.

[astrum]

I wonder if Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained were, in part, divinely inspired.

[cafolini]

I'm not sure that I understand you.

That's obvious.

[hannah_arendt]

I wonder if Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained was, in part, divinely inspired.

Probably we won`t be able to answer to this question.

[astrum]

Probably we won`t be able to answer to this question.


Yes, it will remain a mystery like so many things in life. :)

[hannah_arendt]

Yes, it will remain a mystery like so many things in life. :)

Let be it:)