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letrune · 2 years ago

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How I would adapt House of Leaves to television

A miniseries with three segments:

The Navidson Record. It is this found-footage-esque horror of the weird house itself.

Zampanò's comments and reenactment of the Navidson Record.

Johnny's vlogs and reenacted events and stuff that happened to him.

As the episodes go on, these three parts shift between each other. As in the book, more and more screentime is taken over by the third one, eventually forming a meta-arc.

An entire episode that starts with the Navidson Record, interjected by Johnny's in-the-corner commentary, which eventually turns out to be longer than the actual footage of the Navidson Record in the story itself.

Screen next to screen, with multiple different arcs going on at the same time.

Will Navidson says a sentence, cut to Zampanó's reenactment of the same scene being different, which stops mid-sentence to Johnny's comments, which then turns into a short story, then we DON'T finish the second layer of reenactments.

Maybe even a fourth layer on top, a "making-of", which starts straight enough, but turns out to be a fictionalised version of the very series itself.

But that is just my take. Maybe others got better ideas. I mean, there is a reason why Mark Z. Danielewski doesn't let us into this house.

#house of leaves #idea #idea proposal #adaptation idea #the idea of futility of an adaptation #I mean #consider that House of Leaves is pretty much impossible to adapt #so if you want an adaptation #but what is the soul of the book?#what is the core #The very form here has to change to another medium #in television you don't see anyone else's image but the director's (except if it is being screwed by the network)#in a book you have your own vision based on what you read AND see #Oh dear it seems I am running out of rooms here #what a pity isn't it? But alas #I wonder if anyone reads these tags and thinks of me

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matkatkitkat · 7 months ago

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i started playing Disco Elysium and last night (the same day i started playing) i woke up to my stomach hurting so bad that in my delirium i thought it had to do with something from the game.

and looked it up…