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What is Hollywood waiting for to make a film adaptation of this?

I heard there was an old Italian film of this but it's nowhere to be found and I heard it was mediocre anyway

I would so watch a Stranger movie (not trolling, in b4 Shia Labeouf/James Cameron/Megan Fox jokes)

Also, who do you think would be best to direct the movie or play as Meursault or his friends/enemies?

>> No.1213582

2deep4Hollywood, unfortunately. Also, the Visconti film is actually pretty decent.

>> No.1213584

why is this book so good? I read it last week, what am I missing?

>> No.1213590

>>1213584
Even though the plot is very simple, it somehow makes you think and draw your own conclusions

>> No.1213603

I did have a hard time reading any of the parts about Marie as it jarred too many memories of my last girlfriend whom always wore sundresses to the beach.

>> No.1213610

Terence Davies to direct. Anybody to star.

>> No.1213617

>On the surface, L’Etranger gives the appearance of being an extremely simple though carefully planned and written book. In reality, it is a dense and rich creation, full of undiscovered meanings and formal qualities. It would take a book at least the length of the novel to make a complete analysis of meaning and form and the correspondences of meaning and form, in L’Etranger.

>> No.1213619

>>1213584
Good taste.

>> No.1213621

Sylvester Stallone as Meursault

Neal Patrick Harris as Meursault's lawyer

>> No.1213624

>>1213603
>using whom incorrectly
Fuck you forever, you pseudo-intellectual cunt

>> No.1213625
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1213625

Waiting on Hollywood to make a good film version of anything...

Also, it's been done, and it was beautiful. But it's european and italian so I guess that's not good enough for you.

>> No.1213632

>expecting hollywood to make a philisophical film
>and then expecting Audiences to watch it for hollywood to make a profit
Doh ho ho, not gonna happen. It's all about money, and The Stranger isn't exactly mainstream entertainment for the general public.

>> No.1213639

>>1213632
It doesn't need a huge budget

>> No.1213644

The only directors that could pull out something like this and make it good might be von Trier or Haneke.

>> No.1213646

>>1213639
Then it wouldn't be hollywood.

Independent movies do great cinema on the cheap, hollywood does expensive cinema with explosings and expensive ad campaings.

>> No.1213706

>>1213646
Paranormal Activity

>> No.1213707

>>1213706
It wasn't good though, was it?

>> No.1213709

>>1213706
It also backs up the expensive AD campaign argument.

>> No.1213722

It'd be kind of hard to portray Meursault's point of view in film. Only the people who have read the book would be able to see his indifference towards things, since many of his thoughts about events end in "it doesn't matter." And a voice over usually sounds bad.

>> No.1213724

MICHAEL MOTHERFUCKING BAY! BOOM! BANG! BIGGER BOOM!

Justin Bieber for the lead role

>> No.1213725

There is an adaptation. It is called Bohemian Rhapsody.
Seriously, check the lyrics.

>> No.1213762

>>1213725
>>1213725

Holy shit.

>> No.1213795

>Old Italian film nowhere to be found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok_DIXTyLVk

Right here, friend. Marcello Mastroianni is a convincing Meurseault. This is by far one of my favorite films.

>> No.1213874

>>1213725
>Mama just killed a man
>Put a gun against his head
>Pulled my trigger, now he's dead

>If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
>Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

>> No.1213885
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1213885

>>1213725

How have I not noticed this?

>> No.1213892

>>1213725
Fuck you take that back

>> No.1213893
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1213893

The plot doesn't fit at all with the demanding and formulaic styles of Hollywood.

They'd have to change it so that he escapes and marries his girlfriend or something, while at the same time simplifying or stripping completely it's more dense and meaningful philosophies and concepts.

Just like "Breakfast at Tiffany's" ;_;

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1213896

>Meursault

Not even trolling.

>> No.1213915
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1213915

Bill Murray would be perfect Meursault.

>> No.1213922

>Leave the film adaptation of l'Etranger for the French film industry
>It will be philosophical, well written, and free of American projection on the plot
>All of you who don't speak French (lol losers) can wait for a dub
>???
>PROFIT

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1213923

>>1213915
my god....

>> No.1213934

>>1213922

Are you kidding?

French cinema is awful, it's so is affected by their arrogant obsession with their own cultural heritage. French film is glorified by the French and abhorred by everyone else.

>> No.1213939

>>1213922
>Implying we can't read substitles.
>>1213934
La Nouvelle Vague was a good period of French cinema.

>> No.1213940

>>1213934
Name French films you've seen.

>> No.1213954

>>1213940

The last one I saw at my local GFT was "A Day at the Museum".

It was just awful.

>> No.1214250

I believe the DVD for the italian movie is on a site that sells hard to find movies in the US. It's there for 15 dollars.

http://www.vsom.com/productdetails.asp?search=STRANGER&anyallexact=all&submit=Search&Pro
ductID=3910

>> No.1214285 [DELETED] 

>>1213915

this guy would be better I think

>> No.1214292
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1214292

this guy would be better I think

>> No.1214300

Keanu Reeves would make an awesome Meursault. He's got that disaffected style naturally.

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>>1213578

>Visconti mediocre

>> No.1214359

>>1213893
Fuckyeah, saw breakfast at tiffany's today.

>> No.1214389

>asking for Hollywood to make turn a literary classic into a feature film
>disregarding a European adaptation that is actually quite good

I usually don't act like your typical /lit/ snob, but this is seriously laughable. Do you also want a video-game tie-in? With achievements?