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Originally posted by urgeok
unfilmable ?
i didnt think so at all .. every page was full of 'lets give the people what they want. (the movie audiences - not the harris fans)
no book is unfilmable ... at least 3 or 4 Kurt Vonnegut's books have been adapted to film and they are far more complex and
surreal than anything Harris wrote ..
what made you think it was unfilmable ?
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I think the long forays into the "palace of the memory" excursion into philosophical ruminations, the graphic violence and the screwed up "role-reversal" ending. My feeling at the time, though I could clearly be all-kinds-of-wrong, was that Harris was trying to make a book so utterly "not-silence" that it would either escape the fame of the previous book - or so infuriate fans of SOL (film and book) that it would break the "chains of success". Who knows?? Apparently Thomas Harris is intensely reclusive - so there's really no way of knowing. I just recall that the initial reactions in the press (and in hollywood trade publications) was that the film would be a really hard sell. That, apparently, is part of why Jonathan Demme and Jodie Foster ditched out.
That said, there are clearly some "edge-of-your-seat" moments that seem very cinematic.