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Re: A Pale Fire Movie Scenario? (fwd)
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From: Priscilla Meyer <pmeyer@mail.wesleyan.edu>
>From: Iann88@aol.com
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>Since we are discussing books into movies and who else could have done
>"Lolita" -- I'd opt for Hitch-- can someone jump in and give us a one page
>scenario for "Pale Fire"? What you would present a producer with in twenty
>dramatic minutes while you yelled and screamed and insisted why and how this
>book should be turned into a movie. It can be done, but how?
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>Phil Iannarelli
>Cleveland, OHIO
Opening scene, before the credits roll:
It's pre-dawn grey. A bearded man is shown against the sky floating
silently downward in a green parachute. He falls in dream-like slow motion
onto a goldenrod-filled field. A black chaffeur-driven Rolls turns off a
road and approaches from a distance over the tall grass.
Credits.
OK Brian, your turn.
Priscilla
Priscilla Meyer
Russian Department
Fisk Hall
Wesleyan University
Middletown CT 06459
(860) 685-3127 (work)
(860) 347-0059 (home)
http://www.wesleyan.edu/~pmeyer/index.html
>From: Iann88@aol.com
>
>Since we are discussing books into movies and who else could have done
>"Lolita" -- I'd opt for Hitch-- can someone jump in and give us a one page
>scenario for "Pale Fire"? What you would present a producer with in twenty
>dramatic minutes while you yelled and screamed and insisted why and how this
>book should be turned into a movie. It can be done, but how?
>
>Phil Iannarelli
>Cleveland, OHIO
Opening scene, before the credits roll:
It's pre-dawn grey. A bearded man is shown against the sky floating
silently downward in a green parachute. He falls in dream-like slow motion
onto a goldenrod-filled field. A black chaffeur-driven Rolls turns off a
road and approaches from a distance over the tall grass.
Credits.
OK Brian, your turn.
Priscilla
Priscilla Meyer
Russian Department
Fisk Hall
Wesleyan University
Middletown CT 06459
(860) 685-3127 (work)
(860) 347-0059 (home)
http://www.wesleyan.edu/~pmeyer/index.html