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roadrunnertwiceHEY, let's talk about Kelly Link stories you could make a legitimately good movie out of.
(I think this is a fun game mostly because her stories are so generally unfilmable. I mean my god, imagine taking a try at "Lull.")
Anyway, I nominate "Flying Lessons," "The Faery Handbag," and "Valley of the Girls." Those ones use the "tell" channel for flavor and depth, but confine most of the actual storytelling to the "show" channel, so they'd probably work.
("Valley" least of the bunch, but it's a Shakespearean tragedy at heart and those are eminently performable. You'd have to rearrange the skeleton a bit, but you could totally do it.)
Also, "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" is fundamentally unfilmable but could make for a terrifying video game.
Has anyone else here spent much time thinking about "Flying Lessons?" Here's my thing about that story: It's dressed up to look like a genderswapped modern Orpheus story, but I think it's actually a Tam Lin story in disguise. Fight me.
Tam Lin is such a fuckin baffler of a phenomenon, by the way. Once I finally got what the appeal was, it seemed like it should be money in the bank, adaptation-wise. It works. But most of the takes I've ever seen are punishingly oblique, with a marked tendency to crawl up their own buttholes. (And the original has been rendered oblique just by the passage of time.) What's up with that? Has anyone seen an accessible modern version of the story? (Other than "Flying Lessons," which I really do want to wrangle about with someone.)
(I think this is a fun game mostly because her stories are so generally unfilmable. I mean my god, imagine taking a try at "Lull.")
Anyway, I nominate "Flying Lessons," "The Faery Handbag," and "Valley of the Girls." Those ones use the "tell" channel for flavor and depth, but confine most of the actual storytelling to the "show" channel, so they'd probably work.
("Valley" least of the bunch, but it's a Shakespearean tragedy at heart and those are eminently performable. You'd have to rearrange the skeleton a bit, but you could totally do it.)
Also, "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" is fundamentally unfilmable but could make for a terrifying video game.
Has anyone else here spent much time thinking about "Flying Lessons?" Here's my thing about that story: It's dressed up to look like a genderswapped modern Orpheus story, but I think it's actually a Tam Lin story in disguise. Fight me.
Tam Lin is such a fuckin baffler of a phenomenon, by the way. Once I finally got what the appeal was, it seemed like it should be money in the bank, adaptation-wise. It works. But most of the takes I've ever seen are punishingly oblique, with a marked tendency to crawl up their own buttholes. (And the original has been rendered oblique just by the passage of time.) What's up with that? Has anyone seen an accessible modern version of the story? (Other than "Flying Lessons," which I really do want to wrangle about with someone.)
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Date: 2014-11-14 05:51 pm (UTC)I've not heard of Flying Lessons, but Kelly Link's story "The Fox and The Lady" in "My True Love Gave to Me" is definitely a Tam Lin story. Do you know where I can find Flying Lessons? Google search isn't coming up with anything.
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Date: 2014-11-14 06:16 pm (UTC)"Flying Lessons" is in Stranger Things Happen (pdf, html, mobi).
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Date: 2014-12-03 03:06 am (UTC)