Damnation Alley
Aug. 31st, 2005 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackHey, there *is* a Zelazny film! Why did no-one tell me? I didn't know till I looked down at the book I was reading and it said "Now a Sensational[1] 20th century fox film".
Admittedly, it doesn't look like I'm missing much, the film converted the antihero Hell Tanner into Jeff Hale, I mean a random all american airforce officer not-Hell Tanner, and decided no post-apocalyptic world was complete without mutant cockroaches.
OTOH, it was a reasonable choice -- one of Zelazney's books that *is* set on earth, without a lot of special effects. As much as I'd like to see Lord of Light, I appreciate it could be tricky[2].
[1] Sensational: I guess bad emotions are technically sensational :)
[2] Blasphemous is often the word used. I'm not sure -- I interpreted it as having the fairly clear message that impersonating gods is bad, mmkay? but I can see others.
Admittedly, it doesn't look like I'm missing much, the film converted the antihero Hell Tanner into Jeff Hale, I mean a random all american airforce officer not-Hell Tanner, and decided no post-apocalyptic world was complete without mutant cockroaches.
OTOH, it was a reasonable choice -- one of Zelazney's books that *is* set on earth, without a lot of special effects. As much as I'd like to see Lord of Light, I appreciate it could be tricky[2].
[1] Sensational: I guess bad emotions are technically sensational :)
[2] Blasphemous is often the word used. I'm not sure -- I interpreted it as having the fairly clear message that impersonating gods is bad, mmkay? but I can see others.
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Date: 2005-09-02 01:40 pm (UTC)LOL. I see what you mean. (Though I think my original point -- that Damn Alley is a reasonably unobjection film and hence was easier to make held mostly. I'm not sure if it was before or after starwars; now of course a scifi romp is a default film.)
Yes, I can so easily see the plot/characters etc of LoL being butchered. But it's always *possible* to do that well, even if people wouldn't want to :)