| re: Something New? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:33 pm EDT 07/31/24 | |
| In reply to: Something New? - JereNYC 01:29 pm EDT 07/31/24 | |
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| Back in 2011, Tilda Swinton said that she and director Luca Guadagnino wanted to make a new film version of Auntie Mame going back to the novel, much of which is very different from the play and the film, not to mention the musical, which diverges even more. Patrick Dennis was very happy with the play. If memory serves, he initially tried to adapt it himself for the stage, but couldn't come up with anything workable. Lawrence and Lee did do a remarkably good job of keeping the essence of the novel and a good many, although far from all, of the incidents in the novel, but adapting things so that it works as a dramatic piece, although I don't think that having Mame and Beau go on a years-long honeymoon was a good idea. Anyway, the novel is brilliant and it might well be possible to make a good film that would stick more closely to the novel and would keep some of the content lost in the play for one reason or another. Having said that, the Auntie Mame film is 143 minutes with a great deal of the novel lost. I'm not sure if a film could be made that would keep more of the novel unless the film was around three-and-a-half hours. A mini-series might work. I'm not sure that a whole new musical would be a good idea. |
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