Classic Movie Ficathon?
Apr. 5th, 2006 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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forcryinoutloud and I are thinking of running an SGA Classic Movie Ficathon, in which participants would get to pick a film from the '30s-'60s and write an SGA story based on the movie itself, or extrapolated from the summary and taken in the crazy direction of your choice. (The ones I'm really hoping get written? The Shop Around the Corner, His Girl Friday, North by Northwest, The Searchers...well, and loads more, really.) So, what we want to know is: would you all be interested in something like that?[Poll #704713]
Any other thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? I've never run a ficathon before, so I'd really appreciate any advice/words of caution/hysterical pointing-and-laughing...
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Date: 2006-04-05 05:50 pm (UTC)Also: a thousand yays to your suggestion of including art! I will ask
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Date: 2006-04-05 05:54 pm (UTC)Also, they seem to be remaking (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422774/) Mr. Blandings. Oy.
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Date: 2006-04-05 05:55 pm (UTC)And omg! Congratulations! You should, um. Write porn?
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Date: 2006-04-05 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-05 06:03 pm (UTC)Hmm. It has a certain ring to it. Though I have a shocking lack of icons of Rodney's ass. Perhaps I shall use one of him being competent with a gun instead? Because oh yes.
I would write porn! But it would be the most horrifically unsexy porn in the history of unerotic erotica. (Try saying that very fast)
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Date: 2006-04-05 06:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-05 06:13 pm (UTC)*cackles*
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Date: 2006-04-05 06:34 pm (UTC)No, seriously: I am so excited at the idea of you making SGA movie posters of some sort. *bounces*
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Date: 2006-04-05 06:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-05 07:08 pm (UTC)2. You should read this (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/138172.html). It's awesome.
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Date: 2006-04-05 08:12 pm (UTC)And, god, Vertigo. Really, a lot of Hitchcock would count, but Vertigo! I think my brain might need a moment.
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Date: 2006-04-05 08:50 pm (UTC)Double Indemnity...would just be horribly, horribly depressing. But speaking of noir: I just wish I could think of a way for someone to do Night of the Hunter!
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Date: 2006-04-05 08:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-05 08:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-05 09:30 pm (UTC)(Speaking of Hitchcock, the egg-collecting scenes in "Conversion" felt very much like a nod to Birds.)
This is a terrific challenge a.k.a. ficathon idea!
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Date: 2006-04-05 09:36 pm (UTC)We're not coming up with the list in any scientific way, just compiling the names & summaries of movies we like. I'll add the ones from yours that we didn't already have to the list.
And--never fear! We're not going to assign anything: there'll be a big long list, and people can choose. First-come, first-serve, but that way no one will have to deal with a film with which they are unfamiliar.
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Date: 2006-04-05 09:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-05 09:39 pm (UTC)Hot Scots with oddly (in?)appropriate names make everything better.
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Date: 2006-04-05 09:41 pm (UTC)2. "Ronon Holiday" wins. At EVERYTHING.
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Date: 2006-04-05 10:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-05 10:34 pm (UTC)Just the one?
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Date: 2006-04-06 12:25 am (UTC)You shouldn't be. I can do the same thing and without any sort of context either. Oh, Hitchcock.
(I saw that too.)
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Date: 2006-04-06 01:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-06 03:22 am (UTC)RONON holiday. Hahahahahaha. I don't care about happy endings for Ronon.
Mean, but so so good.
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:33 am (UTC)