/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3546218]

So, I have this friend that makes movies and shit, he is pretty good at directing but he can't come up with long screenplays. He sometimes just goes around and grabs really fucking good images, and I "work" as his editor and we make movies out of them.
In my opnion he is a bit pretentious, but he knows what he is doing. Anyway, the reason I'm here is to ask for some unknown gems that we could dig up and make a movie about. I, and I don't think he either, would like to copy it 100%, more like adapting it to how we see things and then filming it, so it would be more personal (specially for me).
So, to sum up: could you guys post some uknown books that could be translated to film without being way expensive to make?

[Anonymous No.3546224]

1. get a collection of Weird Tales or Arkham House short stories
2. write adaptation screenplay
3. film it
4. ????
5. profit

[Anonymous No.3546233]

>>3546218
>>3546224
if you do that, credit 4chan's /lit/ board

[Anonymous No.3546234]

>>3546224
That's not really what we are aiming at.

[Anonymous No.3546241]

Something from Dubliners, maybe?

[Anonymous No.3546242]

>>3546234
well we are awfully picky aren't we?

care to give a better direction of what you *would* aim at?

[Anonymous No.3546244]

>>3546234
aiming for, sorry. I'm sleepy.

>>3546242
Sorry, didn't mean to look like that. I mean that we aren't looking for horror stories. Something not "genre specific", you know?

>>3546241
I'm taking a superficial look at them right now, thanks.

[Anonymous No.3546279]

>>3546218
Just think of like 200 amazing images and tie them all together with an epic, universal theme, like the battle for good and evil in man's heart.

[Anonymous No.3546285]

[Anonymous No.3546286]

[Anonymous No.3546287]

[Anonymous No.3546289]

[Anonymous No.3546304]

>>3546289
This was inspired by Wuthering Heights, I have seen an adaptation of this film. Pretty good. Will read, thanks.
>>3546287
I think Hollywood was covered a lot of times in movies, not sure if that's something we want to do.
But thanks!
>>3546286
Woah, very interesting concept. Thanks a lot.
>>3546285
This one also appears to be great, thanks mate.
>>3546279
For this to work we would have to go get the images ourselves. Maybe someday, when we have money to go around the world and take pictures we will make something like it.

[Anonymous No.3546306]

>>3546289
This was inspired by Wuthering Heights, I have seen an adaptation of this book. Pretty good. Will read, thanks.
>>3546287
I think Hollywood was covered a lot of times in movies, not sure if that's something we want to do.
But thanks!
>>3546286
Woah, very interesting concept. Thanks a lot.
>>3546285
This one also appears to be great, thanks mate.
>>3546279
For this to work we would have to go get the images ourselves. Maybe someday, when we have money to go around the world and take pictures we will make something like it.

[Anonymous No.3546309]

Pull a Tarkovsky and adapt a Hemingway short story. There's shitloads of them and everyone says they're better than his novels.

[Anonymous No.3546312]

>>3546289
I really don't care about the OP. But this book is one that escapes a lot of people's attention. Dark Spring has parellels with The Bell Jar—but Zürn is actually a wonderful writer of prose.

She also became an hero shortly after writing this movel.

[Anonymous No.3546313]

>>3546306
>I think Hollywood was covered a lot of times in movies, not sure if that's something we want to do.

What?

"Adolphe Marlaud's rule of conduct is simple: live as little as possible so as to suffer as little as possible. For Marlaud, this involves carrying out a meager existence on rue Froidevaux in Paris, tending to his father's grave in the cemetery across the street, and earning the outlines of a living through a part-time job at the funerary shop on the corner. It does not, however, take into account the intentions of the obese concierge of his building, who has set her widowed sights on his diminutive frame, and whose aggressive overtures are to trigger a burlesque and obscene tragedy. Originally published in 1979, The High Life introduces cult French author Jean-Pierre Martinet into English. It is a novella that perfectly outlines Martinet's dark vision: the terrors of loneliness, the grotesque buffoonery of sexual relations, the essential humiliation of the human condition and the ongoing trauma of twentieth-century history. "

[Anonymous No.3546316]

>>3546306
It's nothing at all like Wuthering Heights, but alright.

[Anonymous No.3546321]

>>3546306
I see what you did. You're confusing Black Spring and Dark Spring. They are nowhere near the same book. Unica Zurn's is Dark Spring.

"Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zurn traces the roots of her obsessions: The exotic father she idealized, the "impure" mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described "the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood." Dark Spring is the story of a young girl's simultaneous introduction to sexuality and mental illness, revealing a different aspect of the "mad love" so romanticized by the (predominantly male) Surrealists. Unica Zurn (1916-1970) emigrated in 1953 from her native Berlin to Paris in order to live with the artist Hans Bellmer. There she exhibited drawings as a member of the Surrealist group and collaborated with Bellmer on a series of notorious photographs of her nude torso bound with string. In 1957, a fateful encounter with the poet and painter Henri Michaux led to the first of what would become a series of mental crises, some of which she documented in her writings. She committed suicide in 1970--an act foretold in this, her last completed work."

[Anonymous No.3546329]

>>3546309
Didn't know he adapted one of Hemingway's works.
>>3546313
Oh, I think I got the wrong book.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1079991.High_Life

>>3546321
Hmm, yeah, I think that's what happend. Thanks mate, this sounds very good. Will read.

[Anonymous No.3546333]

>>3546329
Yeah, not the right book.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13515377-the-high-life

You could see the author's name on the cover image...

[Anonymous No.3546339]

The Maimed by Hermann Ungar

"Set in Prague, The Maimed relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually impelled by his widowed landlady into servicing her sexual appetites. At the same time he must witness the steady physical and mental deterioration of his lifelong friend who is suffering from an unnamed disease. Part psychological farce, Ungar tells a dark, ironic tale of chaos overtaking one's meticulously ordered life. One of only two novels Ungar wrote, this translation marks the first time his work has appeared in English. His novellas and short stories are collected in Boys & Murderers."

[Anonymous No.3546341]

>>3546218
>I want you guys to tell me what work I should steal that is little known so my blatant forgery wont be spotted

try being original, the world does not need more fake artist stealing shit.

[Anonymous No.3546351]

>>3546341
>artist stealing

you mean artist right ? The redundancy wasn't necessary.

[Anonymous No.3546353]

>>3546333
Yeah, my mistake.
>>3546339
This sounds great, thanks. Already on the list.
>>3546341
We can't write, well, we are not so good at it right now. Since most (if not all) great filmmakers have adapted books, and movies are a visual medium we aren't doing anything new. Like I said, is just getting something that we can work on and then build our ideas in it.

[Anonymous No.3546360]

>>3546353
Are you going to credit the work you build your ideas on?

[Anonymous No.3546363]

>>3546360
Of course. Would be wrong not to.