Anita Blake movie?

[mhalachai]

So, apparently at the Wolf Howl last night, LKH told the audience that everything's signed and on the go to make a movie out of Guilty Pleasures.

I, um... Not quite sure what to think of that. Okay.

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[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

I liked 'Underworld' . . but yeah. I think most critics, and apparently a large percentage of the audience, stop looking for psychological subtlety when they see too many flashing fangs. Selene was absolutely fascinatingly fucked-up, really a great character, but I think what the average viewer got out of it was that she was a kick-ass babe in lots of leather. I tend to think the Anita Blake books might go that way too. I cringe at the thought of what they'll do with Jean-Claude.

-Sonya

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[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I hope they'll tone down JC. I mean, in the books, you can skim past the frilly shirts, but if they keep true to that in the movie... um, no. (Also, I hope they fix Anita's fashion sense in the movie. True, it was the 90s, but that's no excuse for those clothes)

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[houses7177.livejournal.com]

There is no excuse for her clothes. None. They were deplorable for the 90s even.

*cries into her fashionista clothing*

Hers are as bad as Stephanie Plums. Gah. Though at least Steph has the excuse of being from Jersey.

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[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

Yeah . . though, I mean, this is why I really don't want to see a movie.

That Anita dresses like a 1950s schoolteacher and doesn't realize it, is part of Anita - part of the fact that she grew up without too many useful female role models when it came to living in the real world. Raising the dead, sure, she's got that covered, but being a real live person? Nobody taught her how.

And JC's frilly shirts . . are part of the fact that he is continuously putting on a show, that he wants to be not quite real, that he's objectifying himself because it's how he's survived, both literally and psychologically. Again, a JC who dresses like he actually lives in the world . . wouldn't quite be JC.

But it's taken LKH roughly 12 books and a lot of porn to really effectively get across the fact that she's writing about very broken people. In one movie, plotline condensed from an already rather short text, it's just not going to come across . . it's either going to have be changed, or it's going to look just silly. And I don't trust them to change it in such a way as to make the same point more subtley. . I'm having visions of Hermione in pink frilly robes, here.

-Sonya