July 20, 2012
REVERSAL!
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/King-Speech-Scribe-Adapting-Alexander-Pushkin-Queen-Spades-29326.html
My immediate reaction here (after the WTF) was surprisingly conflicted. On the one hand, it's validation of the great idea to adapt this story. On the other, the gentleman who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for The King’s Speech is already writing it, and had started doing so at least several months before we ever considered it. Struck with disappointment! But relieved considering I hadn’t progressed beyond deep analysis of the short story and hadn’t yet found a good angle on the adaptation. The student in me knew that nothing had changed! I wasn’t ever expecting anything beyond a highly difficult challenge. But the ego inside disagreed; I felt there was some probability that I would crush and write a great and worthy screenplay.
So for the first time (and despite the long defense of my commitment in the previous post’s comments), I found myself thinking about what I would or could do right now if I made a mid-session adjustment and set Pushkin aside. After I walked the poodle, I decided to make two major changes.
THE CHANGES
1) QOS gets moved to the backburner. In its place, I’ll be collaborating on an original story and screenplay with ALEX, mid 20s, Italian-American dude, director and screenwriter. We’ve wanted to work on something together for years, but the opportunity only presented itself recently and this news was the perfect excuse. I flew to the phone and an hour later we were ready for work on Monday. Alex is a character, not sure how he will feel about posting our progress publicly but I will certainly share some stories. I’m sad I’ll be leaving the Russian world but feel fortunate I'm leaving it on these terms, avoiding possible insanity and haunting.
2) I signed up for this: https://www.coursera.org/course/fantasysf
I’ve secretly been craving something like this. Already dove into Grimm Children’s and Household Tales. Starts on Monday, if anyone is interested sign up with me!
And so a stunning plot twist ends this chapter. I'll let you in on a secret: I didn't even really like The King's Speech. Who knows what I’ll write about next (or how I'll multitable all these commitments) but I will keep blogging. More people were reading my rambling on writing than I thought, and I just passed SIX THOUSAND TWITTER FOLLOWERS so I might upgrade to a platform that has slightly more pizzazz. TY for all the discussion so far, despite changing gears I hope that continues.
My immediate reaction here (after the WTF) was surprisingly conflicted. On the one hand, it's validation of the great idea to adapt this story. On the other, the gentleman who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for The King’s Speech is already writing it, and had started doing so at least several months before we ever considered it. Struck with disappointment! But relieved considering I hadn’t progressed beyond deep analysis of the short story and hadn’t yet found a good angle on the adaptation. The student in me knew that nothing had changed! I wasn’t ever expecting anything beyond a highly difficult challenge. But the ego inside disagreed; I felt there was some probability that I would crush and write a great and worthy screenplay.
So for the first time (and despite the long defense of my commitment in the previous post’s comments), I found myself thinking about what I would or could do right now if I made a mid-session adjustment and set Pushkin aside. After I walked the poodle, I decided to make two major changes.
THE CHANGES
1) QOS gets moved to the backburner. In its place, I’ll be collaborating on an original story and screenplay with ALEX, mid 20s, Italian-American dude, director and screenwriter. We’ve wanted to work on something together for years, but the opportunity only presented itself recently and this news was the perfect excuse. I flew to the phone and an hour later we were ready for work on Monday. Alex is a character, not sure how he will feel about posting our progress publicly but I will certainly share some stories. I’m sad I’ll be leaving the Russian world but feel fortunate I'm leaving it on these terms, avoiding possible insanity and haunting.
2) I signed up for this: https://www.coursera.org/course/fantasysf
I’ve secretly been craving something like this. Already dove into Grimm Children’s and Household Tales. Starts on Monday, if anyone is interested sign up with me!
And so a stunning plot twist ends this chapter. I'll let you in on a secret: I didn't even really like The King's Speech. Who knows what I’ll write about next (or how I'll multitable all these commitments) but I will keep blogging. More people were reading my rambling on writing than I thought, and I just passed SIX THOUSAND TWITTER FOLLOWERS so I might upgrade to a platform that has slightly more pizzazz. TY for all the discussion so far, despite changing gears I hope that continues.
I leave you with SCARY SMASH
6 Comments:
PrinzVonHapunkt posted on July 21, 2012 at 06:29 AM
scary smash is awesome!
QED42 posted on July 21, 2012 at 17:38 PM
I read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass a couple of months back, they are both on wiki source. Brush up on some of your maths concepts before reading them :)
KRANTZ posted on July 22, 2012 at 02:35 AM
Math? What kind of math!
QED42 posted on July 22, 2012 at 13:48 PM
Mostly limit and number theory type stuff.
ralphcifaretto posted on July 22, 2012 at 23:43 PM
oh yeah ,on a COMPLETELY unrelated note J. what happened in that match you had with fullflush years ago?
did you win a lot? he went off in chat big time didnt he?
KRANTZ posted on July 23, 2012 at 14:14 PM
@RC i played him a bunch, was so long ago i have no clue who came out ahead. but yeah he was quite the trash talker. our HU sessions were like rap battles
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