Saturday, March 21, 2015
Weekend Discussion and Writing Assignment for the Brave; to be continued next week
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I really look forward to reading others' comments. And think that the dream cast that you came up with is spot-on.
I think a producer needs to hire you!
This is inspired. I love the casting generally, too, though I think that the female cast might be a bit younger.
I wonder if you have read Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, a novelization of Lear that won the Pulitzer Prize and was turned into a movie with Jessica Lange. It might be interesting to ponder as you move forward with this in some way.
You gotta move forward with this. The novela is a great form for the creative retelling of the story and so much more interesting than much of what we watch.
You are a born story teller.
I dearly wish my Spanish were at half the level of my English. I would be employed at Televisa for years by now and there would already be a Televisa version of Dark Shadows.
Plenty of lovebirds, a few "comedic" characters, some not so nice characters and plenty of roles for the classic older actors.
The leads are endless I can think of. Silvia or Angelique and Rulli in Much Ado as Beatrice and Benedik? Altair maybe as Viola--she is petite enough to pass as a boy and Nado's actor, sorry forgot his name, could be her twin Sebastian. I could go on....
Now I'm depressed we most likely wouldn't see that.
Daisynjay
Why wait? Take an intensive Spanish language course and start working on this. Don't let your dream become a "what if?".
Fatima
Is nobody else going to take a crack at this?
Your story is amazing
and your attention to detail makes it so easy to imagine this happening
I wish I had the attention span to do the same with As You Like It
but I don't
I would definitely watch and thoroughly enjoy this novella.
BTW, my research into Lear (which I did before seeing the film) said that earlier versions of the story had him surviving and Cordelia inheriting his kingdom (although she was murdered a few years later). Shakespeare made the story into the tragedy that it is.
Euripides was the only author in the ancient world who had Medea killing her children. In other versions of that story her younger children either died in accidents or were killed by the mob.
Remakes are nothing new!
As count mentioned, La Malquerida used a Spanish work as its source. Why not set Caray readers to the task of adapting a specifically Latin/Hispanic work?
Perhaps Latin/Hispanic audiences are tired of seeing their stories adapted into whatever form of visual entertainment. Maybe it would be refreshing for them to see non-L/H works of literature adapted.
I'd like to see both. In regards to TN's anything not rehashed a million times.
Wish I'd known that three years ago...
But i do know that Televisa is interested in money and you are virtually a nobody in the Telenovela if you dont have a big wallet or fame which is quite a negative,.
It would be quite nice if there was a website/blog that you could write fanmade novels. I am sure there are some existing so if its a great job you'll make your fans shouting !
I don't think so.
Actually, in reference to the four villains of Lear, I have always loved what A.C. Bradley wrote in his definitive work on Shakespeare's tragedies... I will repeat it here in full, and hope you enjoy it:
"Cornwall seems to have been a fit mate for Regan; and what worse can be said of him? It is a great satisfaction to think that he endured what to him must have seemed the dreadful disgrace of being killed by a servant. He shows, I believe, no redeeming trait, and he is a coward, as may be seen from the sudden rise in his courage when Goneril arrives at the castle and supports him and Regan against Lear. But as his cruelties are not aimed at a blood-relation, he is not, in this sense, a 'monster,' like the remaining three.
Which of these three is the least and which the most detestable there can surely be no question. For Edmund, not to mention other alleviations, is at any rate not a woman. And the differences between the sisters, which are distinctly marked and need not be exhibited once more in full, are all in favour of 'the elder and more terrible.' That Regan did not commit adultery, did not murder her sister or plot to murder her husband, did not join her name with Edmund's on the order for the deaths of Cordelia and Lear, and in other respects failed to take quite so active a part as Goneril in atrocious wickedness, is quite true but not in the least to her credit. It only means that she had much less force, courage and initiative than her sister, and for that reason is less formidable and more loathsome. Edmund judged right when, caring for neither sister but aiming at the crown, he preferred Goneril, for he could trust her to remove the living impediments to her desires. The scornful and fearless exclamation, 'An interlude!' with which she greets the exposure of her design, was quite beyond Regan. Her unhesitating suicide was perhaps no less so. She would not have condescended to the lie which Regan so needlessly tells to Oswald:
"It was great ignorance, Gloster's eyes being out,
To let him live: where he arrives he moves
All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,
In pity of his misery, to dispatch
His nighted life."
Her father's curse is nothing to her. She scorns even to mention the gods. Horrible as she is, she is almost awful. But, to set against Regan's inferiority in power, there is nothing: she is superior only in a venomous meanness which is almost as hateful as her cruelty. She is the most hideous human being (if she is one) that Shakespeare ever drew."
My proposed changes are not unusual to the novela world. Even between remakes of the same original story novela writers make changes. My version could also end with Rafael disowning his oldest for the evil she did do even if she repents. Remember that there is a small contingent among viewers that want even the worst villains to achieve redemption, which is not realistic. Regina could end the story alive but paying the price of the loss of her family, including her husband.
Besides, if this played to Shakespeare's ending there would be no suspense.
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