After Tutorial Thoughts
A New Idea
After speaking with Alan today, he suggested that I should push myself more in terms of potential for an adaptation project; not loop myself back into mistakes I made previously.
Therefore my new idea that sounds like something I could really enjoy and push myself with is to collect a group of five characters from classical books/movies/stories etc, and bring them into a new genre and completely re-design them.
Initial Characters
Any Feedback?
- One of the Bears from Goldilocks & The Three Bears
- Lilo or Stitch (Grown up) from Lilo & Stitch
- Mulan
- Jack Jack (Grown up) from the Incredible's
- Alice or the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland
- Peter Pan or Tiger Lilly from Peter Pan
- Ratty from Wind in the Willows
- One of the Smurfs
This approach only works if they all come from the same era and have a literary source. Take a look at The League of Extrodinary Gentleman - Both the graphic novel and film (which used different characters due to copyright). They fit together due to their literary undertones - Adventure/ Horror/ Sci-fi etc...The character are...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen
Mina Murray (Dracula)
Allan Quatermain
Hawley Griffin (The Invisible Man)
Dr. Jekyll/Mr Hyde
Captain Nemo
Orlando (Immortal)
Fu Manchu
Professor Moriarty
Film...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311429/
Allan Quatermain
Captain Nemo
Mina Harker (Mina Murray - Dracula)
Dorian Gray
Tom Sawyer
Dr. Jekyll/Mr Hyde
The Invisible Man
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Think of it as a coming together of characters who appear to be from the same universe.
ReplyDeleteThere is also a film called Murder by Death which is a pastiche of detectives from 1930's literature and film...There is
ReplyDeleteMilo Perrier - Who is really Hurcule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
Sam Diamond - Who is really Sam Spade (Maltese Falcon)
Jessica Marbles - Who is really Miss Marple (Agatha Christie)
Dick & Dora Charlston - Who are really Nick & Nora Charlston (From the Thin Man)
Inspector Sidney Wang - Who is really Charlie Chan (From Books and Films of the 1930's)
Again they can all exist in the same period and universe
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_by_Death
The 'Murder by Death' made this easier for me to understand, thanks Alan. :) So basically if I wanted characters to come together - they must be of similar interests/backstory/persona? So for instance 'strong and independent' characters from Walt Disney could work? or the known side-kicks for instance?
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