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Questionable Content Movie?!

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sterlingdragon:
There should be.It should follow the story of the first 1000 comics, from the very beginning to the naked old ladies.

Butch:
Yeah, nothing screams "solid conclusion" like elderly nudity.

But really, the way movies become lost in translation from the source material, even if it were attempted, it'd come off as another romantic comedy instead of the greatest sarcastic romance of our time.

MrSteevo:
Ya, it would be another Romantic Comedy with but jeph would give it a damn good soundtrack.

waterloosunset:
i doubt it would work to well. for one thing, many of the jokes rely on the punchline on the final panel, which either wouldnt work or too well, or get boring quicly in a film media

benji:
You definitely couldn't just turn the strip into a movie. I suppose someone could make a film based on the strip, but it would be very different. This comic is really a bunch very short stories (each individual strip) combined in to loosely defined longer stories (the "arcs" that we go through) combined in to a single continuous narrative. While there are films that show a series of vignettes that combine in to a larger whole, this is hard to do well. Most movies are a single story with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

You could make a QC movie, but it might not be very good. You would have to choose a specific story. The obvious choice would be a film about Marten, Faye, and Dora from the period around the talk. The early part of the movie would establish them as 3 close friends, and that Faye and Dora both were attracted to Marten. The complication would come with talk and the revelation that Faye couldn't be with Marten. Marten would then end up with Dora, precipitating a crisis in the circle of friends. Perhaps there would be a scene or two of Faye visiting home, and the film would end with her deciding to come back to New England. You could work up some subplot about their extended circle of friends.

Would this be a good movie? Who knows? It would be billed as a romantic comedy, but would turn in to more of a movie about friendship by the third act. It would probably leave many fans of the comic disappointed because our favorite elements/characters would have to be cut for time. If the producers were worried about this, they might try to accommodate as much as possible, which would still disappoint us, and would disappoint others because the film would be filled with completely unexplained little nods to the comic strip that would go over their heads.

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