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QC - The Movie
lunchmeat:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 30 Jul 2010, 19:38 ---guys this is a slice of life comic, the dramaturgical curve is an infinitely long line of blips stretching off into the distance, terminating when Jeph feels it should. It would be a shitty as hell movie if there wasn't a screenplay that completely circumvented the original story and actually made it suitable for the screen. They are two totally different mediums with completely different writing considerations and a Questionable Content movie would be terrible unless it was shot by, like, fuckin' Pasolini or some shit. I would absolutely watch a Pasolini take on the QC verse. But Pasolini is fucking dead.
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Man, this guy is right. Pasolini is TOTALLY dead. Google said so. (I didn't actually check.)
He's right, though - it would need to be a real screenplay, with a real ending of sorts. You'd have to move some of the stuff around in the storyline to make it work - like, Marten's a member of a shit band, and he's trying to get something together, but it's not working. He hates his job, whines like a bitch to Pintsize...until he meets the girl of his dreams who happens to work at the local coffee shop. Marten and his band members fraternize with the cute girls at the coffee shop, and hijinks ensue - until a rival coffee shop opens up across the way! Hooah! Can Marten and his band raise enough customers to keep Coffee of Doom in business and still impress the girl of his dreams?
Seriously, shitty.
Some strange mix of Clerks and Waiting might work well here. Maybe.
LeGrande:
The simplest plot for a QC movie would center around Faye's difficulty with relationships, culminating in a happy ending when Angus proposes to her, allowing Dora to fulfill her dream of being a flower girl in a wedding.
It could be done. And could be done in such a way to lead to the possibility of sequels.
In many ways, though, a QC movie would be like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; you have to take out too many things to make the movie a reasonable length, and then the movie pales in comparison to the radio series and the book.
If Jeph ever gets to do a QC movie/TV/Animated seried, I'm ready to offer my services as a film scorer. (Just the orchestral stuff, I'm sure there'd be plenty of indie music which would make a killer soundtrack album.)
raoullefere:
I think if you ditched "In many ways, though," you're on to something in that third paragraph. I could see a QC series, but a doubt a movie would in any way carry through the 'reality' the comic produces. What you're describing sounds disturbingly like Generic Romantic Comedy plot #3. I know there are things that are REALLY DIFFERENT about Faye, but that's before an industry writing team got done with her.
Also, be a heluva thing to toss Marten into a supporting slot.
Gorganon:
If it was an animated movie, I suggest Billy West and or Maurice LaMarche for all the male roles, and Tress MacNeille for all the female roles :-D
tomart:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 05 Sep 2010, 00:24 --- you're on to something in that third paragraph. I could see a QC series, but doubt a movie would in any way carry through the 'reality' the comic produces. What you're describing sounds disturbingly like Generic Romantic Comedy plot #3. I know there are things that are REALLY DIFFERENT about Faye, but that's before an industry writing team got done with her.
Also, be a heluva thing to toss Marten into a supporting slot.
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" ...center around Faye's relationships, culminating in a happy ending with Angus proposing..."
..... ..... ..... This shows in a nutshell how Hollywood (or maybe ANY squeezing down to feature-length) completely fucking DESTROYS the essence, the reality of what we know and love here. And the casting and direction would never come close to Jeph's tone and style, unless they gave him complete creative control, which they'd never give up to the mere founder-author-creator-writer-artist-soul of the "property."
A shame, but maybe better not to do it at all.
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