Greetings..
After finally reading The Keep after approx 30 years after seeing the movie, I will add to this thread my own two cents. I loved the film and the book, but boy, after all this time I can't help thinking; "Dafuq were you thinking Mr. Mann?" I compare this sentiment to when I read Max Brooks' World War Z and watching that horrid 'adaptation' by Brad Pitt.. Sorry but that wasn't WWZ, it was "Hi, I'm Brad Pitt and I'm in a zombie movie". Ok, I'm calm now that I've gotten that out of my system..
Even though I still love the movie, (c'mon, I was a thirteen year old when I saw the movie, and no kid my age at that time read books! :p ) but now that I'm older, and have read the book, I have no idea where Mann got his idea of Rasalo....oh exuse me, Molasar... Still think he's the scariest antagonist to be portrayed on film, just for his looks, but Rasalom he's not...And I don't see why Mann, or Paramount, would agree to have him made like that... But hey, this is Hollywood...Someone posted (Tony?) in another thread about RJ being made on Netflix....good call. Hollywood has no brains when it comes to making good horror, (current crop of Saw, Paranormal Activity, and The Conjuring nonsense included) and network TV? ABC? HAHAHAHHA don't make me laugh.....AMC is tolerable, with the Walking Dead for example, but I can tell you, even without reading one RJ novel yet, that network TV would make me vomit if they did an RJ series...HBO? Cinemax, Showtime? Fine.. But if I see RJ or any incarnation of the Adversary Cycle on network TV, I'll shoot my Verizon FiOS cable box..
I loved The Keep, and I see no reason why it couldn't be remade and be more like the source material...God I will never understand why directors and producers continue to stray so far away from good source material.. Yes, you'll never have a film translate precisely into a movie, and imo short stories usually do better in that regard when they are adapted, but OMG....!!! WWZ being a current example...
Anyway...I kept picturing Rasalom, at the end of the story, looking like the actor who portrays Frankenstein's monster from the show Penny Dreadful....it just fit for me.
I should have my copy of The Compendium of Srem arrive either today or tomorrow so I can't wait...in fact I couldn't wait so much I went ahead and read Aryans and Absinthe.. :o
Philip
@fairlane32
After finally reading The Keep after approx 30 years after seeing the movie, I will add to this thread my own two cents. I loved the film and the book, but boy, after all this time I can't help thinking; "Dafuq were you thinking Mr. Mann?" I compare this sentiment to when I read Max Brooks' World War Z and watching that horrid 'adaptation' by Brad Pitt.. Sorry but that wasn't WWZ, it was "Hi, I'm Brad Pitt and I'm in a zombie movie". Ok, I'm calm now that I've gotten that out of my system..
Even though I still love the movie, (c'mon, I was a thirteen year old when I saw the movie, and no kid my age at that time read books! :p ) but now that I'm older, and have read the book, I have no idea where Mann got his idea of Rasalo....oh exuse me, Molasar... Still think he's the scariest antagonist to be portrayed on film, just for his looks, but Rasalom he's not...And I don't see why Mann, or Paramount, would agree to have him made like that... But hey, this is Hollywood...Someone posted (Tony?) in another thread about RJ being made on Netflix....good call. Hollywood has no brains when it comes to making good horror, (current crop of Saw, Paranormal Activity, and The Conjuring nonsense included) and network TV? ABC? HAHAHAHHA don't make me laugh.....AMC is tolerable, with the Walking Dead for example, but I can tell you, even without reading one RJ novel yet, that network TV would make me vomit if they did an RJ series...HBO? Cinemax, Showtime? Fine.. But if I see RJ or any incarnation of the Adversary Cycle on network TV, I'll shoot my Verizon FiOS cable box..
I loved The Keep, and I see no reason why it couldn't be remade and be more like the source material...God I will never understand why directors and producers continue to stray so far away from good source material.. Yes, you'll never have a film translate precisely into a movie, and imo short stories usually do better in that regard when they are adapted, but OMG....!!! WWZ being a current example...
Anyway...I kept picturing Rasalom, at the end of the story, looking like the actor who portrays Frankenstein's monster from the show Penny Dreadful....it just fit for me.
I should have my copy of The Compendium of Srem arrive either today or tomorrow so I can't wait...in fact I couldn't wait so much I went ahead and read Aryans and Absinthe.. :o
Philip
@fairlane32