I met a girl at the Rainbow Bar/She asked me if I'd beat her

[rolanni]

So, Scrabble (and Mozart, too) had fancy wet canned cat food by way of birthday cake, which they both seemed to enjoy.

Yesterday (or the day before; not tracking time too well at the moment), there was an exchange in matociquala's LJ that got me thinking about which of our stories I'd like to see Hollywood take note of (with an appropriate check written to the auctors, naturally).



While I still think it would be very cool to, yanno, actually see all the Jump ships popping in to roost over Liad,

I think that I would most like to see Carousel Tides as a movie, because, after all -- hunky Native American hero, cool wooden carousel, batwing horse, leviathan, interworld gates, snallygasters and the hokey-pokey. What's not to love?

So -- what's your favorite story that you'd like to see made into a movie, and why? Doesn't have to be one of our stories. Go ahead; I'm interested.


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Hmm, good question. Looking over at my bookshelf, it seems like a lot of the books I like wouldn't make the transition from page to screen very well. For example, while I'd love for Roger MacBride Allen's "The Ring of Charon" to be filmed because it is so rich with imagery, the pacing and structure just wouldn't lend itself to a movie, without a rewrite that would most likely wreck it.

I agree that "I Dare" is the most cinematic of your books that I've read, but I think I'd have to go with Lynn Flewelling's "Luck in the Shadows" if I'm stuck with choosing just one. While I really want a good Sci-Fi movie, I think Luck could just be translated directly, scene by scene and end up with a movie that's only problem is that it's too long. I Dare probably switches viewpoint too frequently to make a really easy transfer to screen, although I think that a high budget mini-series like Dune would probably be best in either case. They both have too much going on in them to fit into two hours without chopping pieces out, and people's attention spans seem to be dropping back again now that Lord of the Rings is finished.