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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Aug 6, 2015 6:42:27 GMT -5
"The children stepped into the office and got a better look at the man who had mocked them. He was dressed in a rumpled brown suit that had something sticky on its jacket, and he was wearing a tie decorated with pictures of snails." - The Austere Academy, p. 18 Although I'm slightly appalled to have anything in common with such a disgusting character, that's still overshadowed by far by the coolness of the whole situation. There's probably hundreds of different tie design that feature snails, but I think this one fits the description stylistically as well as literally. Should I ever be invited to assist in making a stage version of The Austere Academy (which is a basically inevitable situation, isn't it?), Nero's tie will already be taken care of!
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Aug 6, 2015 6:48:54 GMT -5
I would like a tie with snails.
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Post by Gregor Anwhistle on Aug 6, 2015 10:05:48 GMT -5
A stage version of The Austere Academy? Somebody please make that happen! Really cool tie  |
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Post by Dante on Aug 6, 2015 11:28:51 GMT -5
TAA would probably be one of the easier books to stage, I'm inclined to think.
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Post by MisterM on Aug 8, 2015 2:52:52 GMT -5
TRR would be great.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Aug 8, 2015 3:24:18 GMT -5
TAA would probably be one of the easier books to stage, I'm inclined to think. Yes, definitely much easier than TSS or TGG. I could imagine TPP making for a good stageplay if it didn't rely so much on the reader's knowledge of the previous books - in comparison, I can see TAA being adapted in its own right with just a few elements from TBB thrown in. |
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Post by gliquey on Aug 15, 2015 15:07:42 GMT -5
Yes, definitely much easier than TSS or TGG. I could imagine TPP making for a good stageplay if it didn't rely so much on the reader's knowledge of the previous books - in comparison, I can see TAA being adapted in its own right with just a few elements from TBB thrown in. That's certainly an interesting thought; TAA is where we meet the Quagmires, marks the first appearance of V.F.D. and is the first book after the original 4 Handler was commissioned to write. Count Olaf's plan might not make any sense without context of TBB - then again, his plans rarely make sense in context - but TAA is definitely an important turning point in the series and I can imagine a good adaptation of it with a few tweaks here and there. |
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Post by Hermes on Aug 15, 2015 15:13:33 GMT -5
I think the context and Olaf's part in it could easily be explained in a few lines at the beginning.
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Post by Dante on Aug 15, 2015 15:48:23 GMT -5
As indeed it usually is, come to that. Though you might write out the white-faced women, who in any case do very little in TAA - a bit of a missed opportunity, really. Alternatively you could expand their roles.
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Post by gliquey on Aug 15, 2015 16:08:28 GMT -5
the white-faced women, who in any case do very little in TAA Very true. In TRR, 'Dr. Lucafont' is involved in the examination of the corpse and present for several chapters; the androgynous person in TWW tries to capture the Baudelaires; the bald man is very important to Olaf's plan in TMM; the doorman is present from the first chapter (I think) in TEE and Officer Luciana helps frame the Baudelaires in TVV. But in TAA, the white-faced women... give the Baudelaires lasagne. |
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Post by Dante on Aug 15, 2015 16:41:59 GMT -5
They're basically there to drag the Quagmires off in the final chapter. Quite wordlessly, I might add.
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