I read a condensed version a while back and then wrote Jim Claitor if he would be interested in the book to make a movie. He wrote back telling me to send the book. Mark
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings > <no_reply@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Who will make the most expensive movie of all time, at 500 > > > > > million dollars? > > > > > > > > > > It should be done. > > > > > > > > Either that or one could make 71,428 films like > > > > Robert Rodriguez's "El Mariachi." That film was > > > > made on a budget of $7,000, and remains one of > > > > the tightest and most entertaining films of the > > > > last twenty years.>> > > > > > > Yea, but I want an epic. > > > > That is your right. I was just trying to point > > out that 1) the amount of money spent on an "epic" > > or any other film does NOT correspond to how good > > it is,>> > > > Well duh...yea. > I still want an epic. > > > << and 2) one could feed a million people for > > a year for what you propose spending on such an > > "epic,">>> > > > Why bother? There are too many humans on planet earth. > > > <<which after all would be seen only by > > people from India and a handful of Indiaphiles > > throughout the world. >> > > > Not if it was done right. And with good actors. > > > > > > Besides, they might take that money and do as bad > > a job with it as Peter Brook did with *his* TV film > > of the Mahabharata. It's *exruciating*. >>> > > > I thought it was quite good. Probably not enough car chases and > explosions for you though. > > > <<Forcing > > audiences to sit through it could legitimately be > > seen by Amnesty International as a form of torture. :-)>>> > > > Or, it would be a good movie, but it takes imagination to see how > that could happen . ;-) > > OffWorld >
