Adaptation

I'm currently watching Huston's The Maltese Falcon. Bogart is good as Spade. The guy they got for Wilmur is uncannily like what I pictured in my head. Granted I heard the audiobook version of it. It's no doubt the reader was heavily influenced by the movie as much as the book. So far I'm pretty happy with the inclusions and omissions of the book. Recent book adapters should take note. Hell I'm not a Tolkien fanatic, but I still thought there were some huge things missing from Return of the King. I just don't know what was going on with that epilogue.

I've had this idea in the back of my head for a while now. I'd like to go find some old forgotten mystery novel and turn it into a movie. Maybe modernize it. Try my own hand at one of my biggest critiques of contemporary American cinema. I guess ROTK isn't necessarily American but you catch my drift.

I noticed David's mention of Oldboy over at his journal. So I checked out the trailer. It looks really cool. I'll have to figure out a way to check it out.

Gonna try to catch Blade: Trinity today. I don't expect much. Blade 2 was great, stylistically. Some of the best action in a while. I really liked it because it didn't rely to heavily on Asian fighting style which is really rare these days. Del Toro (the director) even managed to make a pro-wrestling style suplex look somewhat powerful. I don't expect I'll see so much in the third one but through the two mediocre-to-good movies I have become somewhat interested in the characters, one-dimensional as they are. I'm also not looking forward to the addition of the teen beat squad that apparently joins Blade on this adventure. But nonetheless I'm sure there are worst movies out there.