Tuesday 20 January 2015

Adaptation (B): After Tutorial Thoughts


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

5 comments:

  1. 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...

    Graphic Novel...
    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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  2. Think of it as a coming together of characters who appear to be from the same universe.

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  3. There is also a film called Murder by Death which is a pastiche of detectives from 1930's literature and film...There is

    Milo 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

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    1. 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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    2. Mulan & Maleficent for example?

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