Ive always been a fan of the Dune series by Frank Herbert. His writings have an ecological undertone and his talent as a writer is second to none. The first three novels in the series are probably the best and could stand alone, but the next 3 jump thousands of years into the future and lose many of the original characters. Now if they could make a decent movie that would be great!
Michael Dunn On Dec 24, 8:49 am, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob, > > At the risk of exposing how nerdy I might be, I have between 2500 and 3000 > science fiction and fantasy books in my collection. Of these there are > hundreds that have excellent story lines that could be drawn from to make > better movies. Instead directors choose to produce their own pabulum of > derivative drivel ignoring the body of work that made the genre popular in > the first place. It is a fiction about the ideas that must be richly > developed and internally consistent. Ego over quality. Instead they either > blow up an enormous amount of stuff or give us soap opera crap with just a > hint of futuristic background and call it al science fiction. When they do > make a movie based upon a classic science fiction novel, they typically > mutilate it beyond recognition and somehow think they are improving it. It > can be done well. The Lord of the Rings, while not perfect was excellent. > The movie 2010 was good. Others recommended include Blade Runner, Silent > Running, A boy ad his Dog to name a few. > > Here are some screen grabs from Avatar: > > Edward Frank > > "Beauty is a summation of the parts working together in such a way that > nothing is needed to be added, taken away or altered." Elio Caretti > > avatar01a.JPG > 21KViewDownload > > avatar02a.JPG > 18KViewDownload > > avatar04a.JPG > 15KViewDownload > > avatar05a.JPG > 15KViewDownload > > avatar06a.JPG > 14KViewDownload -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
