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[FearfulJesuit]

Currently I, with a friend, am writing a dramatical adaptation of Tara Gilesbie's "My Immortal." It can be found here.

[Biag]

Oh god I would so want to play the narrator if I could be in that production.

EDIT: Aww, you don't have a narrator. How will you get in all the exclamation points?

[Neonivek]

Oh god I would so want to play the narrator if I could be in that production.

EDIT: Aww, you don't have a narrator. How will you get in all the exclamation points?

Yeah someone has to play Tara

[Acid]

No... just... no. Please. You'd rather be making a "dramatical adaptation" of "the Room".

[Flaming Dorf]

Watching this.

[Sensei]

Can I just say, a dramatic reading + animation (with focus on the reading) would, between typos and the general awfulness of the dialogue, would be much less likely to be awful? Maybe look at Half-Life: Full Life Consequences as an example.

[Errol]

But you could compensate lack of bad orthography with large amounts of bad acting! I see no possible way how this could go wrong.

[Neonivek]

Can I just say, a dramatic reading + animation (with focus on the reading) would, between typos and the general awfulness of the dialogue, would be much less likely to be awful? Maybe look at Half-Life: Full Life Consequences as an example.

Honestly I've seen some animated and illustrated fanfiction readings.

My oppinion? Not done enough.

I WANT to read more... but I can't find any.

Anyhow the issue is Errol is translating why the fiction is funny into stage. For example the intricate descriptions on what is wearing at any moment of time... and how it will skip over others, such as sex, almost as quickly.

Personally I think it works really well with a Tara character as a narrator of some sort... or HECK Tara being the narrator AND Enoby

One reason I like some really bad fanfiction is that they do certain things I just don't get in real fiction, other then comedy. In Halflife Full life Concequences it was the grand and often poetic language. In Ebony's case it was just so facinating to see such an unlikable character in EVERY SINGLE way be so beloved by everyone around her. It was like a car crash. In Christian Humber Reloaded (Comic book will never be finished) it was actually rather imaginative and childlike that it kinda was wonderous, like something from a childhood I never had.

It is why not all really bad fiction is interesting... no matter how bad it got. Bad fiction to me works because some things just arn't expressed through good fiction. Like that episode of the Cosby show where the child made a book that they acted out in a fantasy scene (my favorite episode), the ending was a cop out but in the end rather beautiful. Bad fiction that is JUST "OMG this is bad" alone is bad.

[G-Flex]

No... just... no. Please. You'd rather be making a "dramatical adaptation" of "the Room".

Tommy Wiseau has actually expressed a desire to do a stage version of it. Apparently, at a recent(?) screening of the film, he and other guys (no clue if they were the original cast at all) were acting out scenes from the movie while it was playing.



I honestly have no idea how you'd translate "My Immortal" into a stage production, though. So much of its horrific value comes from the way the written word is (mis)used, and it's so freaking long that there's no way you could put the entire thing on stage. It's also a whole lot easier to be rambling and incoherent in written form than on stage or in film... although Michael Bay might be proving me wrong on that front.

[Neonivek]

Actually if you cut down on all the pointless crud it would be quite short.

I mean it has a chapter that is repeated twice and a scene that is repeated thrice.

[G-Flex]

If you cut down on the pointless crud, you're left with nothing. Even the title is just a bland, cliched reference to some song.