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Steven Soderburgh has the rights to the film version of Confederacy of Dunces, and even though it would make a terrible film in the wrong hands, i'm confident in Soderburgh, because he's just the type to pull off something like that. also because he's my favorite at the moment and in my mind he can do just about anything. John Goodman would be great as Ignatius Reilly, with Lin Shaye (the creepy landlady in Kingpin, mary's creepy, dog lovin' friend in Something about Mary) as his mother. Christina Ricci would make a great Myrna Minkoff.
I'd love to see someone make Pearl Buck's novel East Wind, West Wind into a film. it's about a chinese woman who is in an arranged marriage with a man who has been in the US for school (it takes place in the 20s or 30s i think), and he comes home with all these western ideas. and she has been trained since childhood to please her husband and inlaws in the traditional way. so an interesting conflict develops, because even though the western ideals of marriage are much less confining than the chinese, the girl cannot face a completely unfamiliar way of life.
i don't think i could make either of those films, though. i don't have the narrative skill for Confederacy of Dunces, and films about china made by white-bread americans never go over well, regardless of their quality. if i were directing, i would probably make a series of Madeleine L'Engle's novels about the Murry family. A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. there just aren't enough good children's films.
funny, i usually say that most novels don't make good films, yet my post is all novels i'd like to see made into films...
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deep in the heat of the bush...
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