If you could get Spike Jones to make this into a real movie and have Marwencol be stop-motion animation, it would be amazing. So it would be live action about the guy in the real world and then have the animated Marwencol, it would be an awesome movie. I'd leave the crossdressing stuff out of it though. But an idea about a guy creating an alternative world is a great idea for a movie.
shareNo, leaving the cross dressing out would be dishonest and whitewashing. It's obviously an important part of Mark's identity, not least of all because it led to his vicious beating. It's exactly this kind of Hollywood sanitizing that ruins good stories and is one of the reasons mainstream American movies are utterly toothless and weak nowadays.
shareHe got beat up in the first place for crossdressing...why the hell should they leave that out?
shareSo it IS going to be a movie. And Zemeckis! Can't go wrong there.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni56346110/?ref_=hm_nw_tp_t3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwSxqnRW-8
I don't know how I feel about this...I have a feeling that with Zemeckis directing it'll feel *too* dramatized. I liked the Spike Jonze idea but...regardless, I'm excited because I loved the documentary so much. Thanks for sharing that!
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