Comments on: Legend (1985) http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/06/05/legend-1985/ Film reviews and commentary tonight, before I forget tomorrow Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:14:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Becca http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/06/05/legend-1985/comment-page-1/#comment-716 Becca Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:12:01 +0000 http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/06/05/legend-1985/#comment-716 It's a novel, I've turned a few people onto it and everyone whose read it, loved it. Check it out. And your right, even the better extended version of the movie feels like a cut and paste job. It’s a novel, I’ve turned a few people onto it and everyone whose read it, loved it. Check it out.

And your right, even the better extended version of the movie feels like a cut and paste job.

]]> By: Joe Valdez http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/06/05/legend-1985/comment-page-1/#comment-685 Joe Valdez Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:45:15 +0000 http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/06/05/legend-1985/#comment-685 Is <em>Nevermore</em> a novel or a comic? It sounds really cool. I probably should have tempered my comments to say that the finished film felt like a cut and paste job. You may be right about the original script being brilliant, I never read it. The movie Ridley Scott made was far from brilliant. Is Nevermore a novel or a comic? It sounds really cool. I probably should have tempered my comments to say that the finished film felt like a cut and paste job. You may be right about the original script being brilliant, I never read it. The movie Ridley Scott made was far from brilliant.

]]> By: Becca http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/06/05/legend-1985/comment-page-1/#comment-684 Becca Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:30:54 +0000 http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/06/05/legend-1985/#comment-684 William Hjortsberg is one of my favorite authors, Fallen Angel (they based Angel Heart on this book) and Nevermore are two of my favorite reads. Nevermore has one of the coolest concepts for a book ever! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to investigate a series of murders based on the writing of Edgar Allen Poe. There's mystery, sex, adventure, sham psychics, magic...it's great and I highly reccomend it! That said Hjortsberg wrote a gazillion versions of the Legend script. Something like 20 versions and the original screenplay is brilliant, it's huge with more fantastic creatures and a more ferral overtly sexual villian. In fact the Lily character becomes a wolf towards the end of the screenplay and there is crazy wolf love between her and the villian. It's so great, I wish it could have been made, but it was too cost prohibitive. William Hjortsberg is one of my favorite authors, Fallen Angel (they based Angel Heart on this book) and Nevermore are two of my favorite reads. Nevermore has one of the coolest concepts for a book ever! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to investigate a series of murders based on the writing of Edgar Allen Poe. There’s mystery, sex, adventure, sham psychics, magic…it’s great and I highly reccomend it!

That said Hjortsberg wrote a gazillion versions of the Legend script. Something like 20 versions and the original screenplay is brilliant, it’s huge with more fantastic creatures and a more ferral overtly sexual villian. In fact the Lily character becomes a wolf towards the end of the screenplay and there is crazy wolf love between her and the villian. It’s so great, I wish it could have been made, but it was too cost prohibitive.

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