January Meme: Sequel/Reboot of my choice
Jan. 16th, 2020 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakNo time yesterday, so here we go:
Sequel/reboot for a movie/tv Show of choice
Sequel: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. My one true Terminator canon. There shall be no other. It was sooooo goood!
Reboot: The Never-Ending Story, as a tv miniseries, covering the entire novel, and actually reflecting the novel's characterisations and important themes. Which isn't to say that I'd insist on word-by-word faithfulness. For example, the original novel, dearly as I love it, is a product of its time. The only important female characters are: a) the Child-Like Empress, who by necessity very rarely shows up - three times altogether -, Xaide, an evil sorceress, and Morla the Ancient (a depressed gigantic turtle). For everyone else, the default is male, including horses, werewolves, stoneeaters, fiery lions, dragons etc. There's no reason why Fuchur (in German)/Falkor (in English) has to be male, for example, or, for that matter, Atreju's original horse.
One tricky bit is the casting of Bastian, because Bastian, once he has the power to do so, literally remaking himself into a Gary Stu, and the horrible effect this has on his character is a quintessential plot point. Which starts with him changing himself from a bullied overweight boy to a good looking dream prince, which takes the memories of ever having been a bullied outsider from him. However, if you simply exchange actors for Bastian, it probably won't feel like the same character. Otoh if you cast Bastian from the get go with a good looking kid who is made Hollywood ugly (glasses!), you lose the emotional point, too. So what I'd suggest is to cast Bastian-in-Phantasia with the same Boy who plays Atreju, just slightly altered, and now and then show him reflected in mirrors as his old self. This would tie with the canonical Bastian and Atreju seeing each other when Atreju gets shown his true self early in the novel, and with Atreju being what Bastian wants to be. The irony of course being that while he can physically remake himself Atreju-like, he's less and less like him that way, whereas the bullied child early on was.
The Other Days
Sequel/reboot for a movie/tv Show of choice
Sequel: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. My one true Terminator canon. There shall be no other. It was sooooo goood!
Reboot: The Never-Ending Story, as a tv miniseries, covering the entire novel, and actually reflecting the novel's characterisations and important themes. Which isn't to say that I'd insist on word-by-word faithfulness. For example, the original novel, dearly as I love it, is a product of its time. The only important female characters are: a) the Child-Like Empress, who by necessity very rarely shows up - three times altogether -, Xaide, an evil sorceress, and Morla the Ancient (a depressed gigantic turtle). For everyone else, the default is male, including horses, werewolves, stoneeaters, fiery lions, dragons etc. There's no reason why Fuchur (in German)/Falkor (in English) has to be male, for example, or, for that matter, Atreju's original horse.
One tricky bit is the casting of Bastian, because Bastian, once he has the power to do so, literally remaking himself into a Gary Stu, and the horrible effect this has on his character is a quintessential plot point. Which starts with him changing himself from a bullied overweight boy to a good looking dream prince, which takes the memories of ever having been a bullied outsider from him. However, if you simply exchange actors for Bastian, it probably won't feel like the same character. Otoh if you cast Bastian from the get go with a good looking kid who is made Hollywood ugly (glasses!), you lose the emotional point, too. So what I'd suggest is to cast Bastian-in-Phantasia with the same Boy who plays Atreju, just slightly altered, and now and then show him reflected in mirrors as his old self. This would tie with the canonical Bastian and Atreju seeing each other when Atreju gets shown his true self early in the novel, and with Atreju being what Bastian wants to be. The irony of course being that while he can physically remake himself Atreju-like, he's less and less like him that way, whereas the bullied child early on was.
The Other Days
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