Hollywood will Charles Willefords „Ketzerei in Orange“ (The burnt orange heresy) verfilmen. Neil LaBute soll Regie führen. Mehr ist noch nicht bekannt. Außer dass Produzent William Horberg (yep, der hat auch die Willeford-Verfilmung „Miami Blues“ produziert) und LaBute große Willeford-Fans sind.
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Via Go into the Movies habe ich dieses interessante Gespräch von Tony Martin mit Robert McKee entdeckt:
Sehr schön ist die Diskussion am Anfang des zweiten Teils über sympathische Helden – und warum wir trotzdem unsympathische Helden wie Hannibal Lecter und Macbeth bewundern.
Und wer nicht hören will, kann lesen.
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TV is a highly moralistic universe. Good almost always triumphs over evil. There are, of course, gray areas. Antiheroes like Tony Soprano, Vic Mackey, Dexter Morgan and Patty Hewes are far from squeaky clean. But if you look closely, they do have their own moral codes which may be outside the law, but aren’t full-on “evil.” Dexter may be a serial killer, but he only kills really bad people. Patty is a scheming liar, but does it for the sake of her wronged clients. And these characters inevitably pay some emotional price for the shady things they do. You’ll never meet a happy antihero. My point is that for all the dark, edgy drama on the air, there’s still only so far you can push the boundaries of conventional morality on television. Networks and studios will insist on some redeeming qualities for your lead characters. I don’t think they’re entirely wrong about this, either. (…)
As TV writers, if we’re very lucky, our work will be seen by millions of people. If we’re even luckier, it might influence the way those people think. Which is why I really don’t have a problem with the good guys, however predictably, winning their fictional battles more often than not.
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Drehbuchautor John August spricht über seine Arbeit, also das Schreiben von Drehbüchern (Teil ein, Teil zwei).
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Bei uns hat sich Aufregung um den „Baader-Meinhof-Komplex“ bereits gelegt. Dennoch muss ich auf dieses sehr ausführliche Interview mit Regisseur Uli Edel (der hier bei uns ja fast keine Interviews zum Film gab) hinweisen. Witzig ist diese Passage:
They didn’t like that nude beach scene, huh?
No! In Germany, that’s nothing. Not one person referred to that. The first word I got about it was from an American guy who saw it in London: “Uh… those two naked girls… don’t you think you’ll have problems with that?”
Und den neuen Bond mag Edel auch nicht:
Yeah, that’s what I hated in the new Bond movie. How could they say that was a good movie? I could hardly see a thing in those action scenes!
Aber in erster Linie geht es um den Film und die damalige Zeit.
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Und The Rap Sheet stellt John Connolly einige Fragen:
I think that the books in which the supernatural element is used feel richer and more layered to me. There are plenty of straightforward crime novelists out there, and what they do they do very well. But there are fewer, I think, who are prepared to experiment and hybridize, mainly because there still seems to be resistance to it among the more conservative sections of the genre. That comes, I think, from a fundamental misunderstanding of how it can be used.
In my books, it’s not a case of “the ghost did it.” I simply don’t find metaphysical and anti-rationalist concepts inimical or alien to the genre. I guess, if I have to defend myself, I take a wider, more inclusive view of the genre’s possibilities, and that can’t be a bad thing. Ultimately, open-minded beats narrow-minded every time.
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