Daniel Handler!


Haha I love that guy.
I really want to see this now.

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Me too.

Have you seen Rick? It's easier to find and it's fantastic.

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Okay, I love aSouE to death (they're my second-favorite novels RIGHT after Harry Potter, and it's a close call there, really). But Dan Handler doesn't seem meant for screenplays. The two movies he wrote screenplays to didn't seem to have great ratings on this site. And he wrote like 6 versions of the screenplay for the Series of Unforunate Events movie, but they were all too shticky and they had to get another screenwriter. This just goes to show, once again, that book and movie are two VERY different media.

"What is **nt?" --Lady Chatterley

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I wanted so much to hate this comment, and to talk about The Basic Eight and Heathers and then maybe how Adverbs was a play. But the more I think about it the more I feel like Handler is about narrative tone and style and taking us all on tangents. And you're right in the end that those aren't the same skills you write movies with.

I would kind of like a shticky Unfortunate Events movie rather than what I assume the movie was actually like, though. Because the shtick is the best part of the books.

So I think I agree with you in the end. Handler's probably just fine at dialogue, but the things that make his writing special might get lost in the movie form.

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