A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C) 1985 Warner Bros. “Silver Bullet” (1985) AKA: “Stephen King’s Silver Bullet” Directed by Dan Attias Written by Stephen King, based on the novella “Cycle of the Werewolf” Starring: Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Megan Follows, Corey Haim, Terry O’Quinn Uncle Red : I mean, uh, what the heck you gonna shoot a .44 bullet at anyway... made out of silver? Mac : How about a werewolf? Stephen King’s prolific nature  has earned him the dubious honor of having written the most novels or stories adapted for theatrical release. Ranging from the ridiculous (“Maximum Overdrive” ) to the sublime (“The Shawshank Redemption,” “Stand By Me”), movies based on King’s fiction have attracted audiences since Brian De Palma made “Carrie” in 1976. Some King fans say, tongue in cheek, that if Hollywood ever got its hands on the best-selling author’s laundry list, it, too, will be adapted into a movie If you ask me on which end of the quality spectrum I’d place 1985’s “Silver

(C) 2002 Paramount Pictures “We Were Soldiers” (2002) Directed by Randall Wallace Written by Randall Wallace, based on the book We Were Soldiers Once...And Young, by Hal Moore and Joseph L. Galloway Starring: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe,  Sam Elliott, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, Barry Pepper Joe Galloway : [ narrating ] We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young. “We Were Soldiers,” writer-director Randall Wallace's 2002 feature film about the three-day Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam, is one of the best movies about America's "lost crusade" in Southeast Asia. . Based on Lt. Gen. Harold B. Moore and Joseph Galloway's non-fiction book We Were Soldiers Once....and Young, Wallace's film version is a realistic and respectful account of the first major battle between U.S. and North Vietnamese

(C) 2014 Quirk Books/Lucas Books/Lucasfilm Ltd. Scene 1. The Ice world of Hoth. Enter LUKE SKYWALKER. LUKE: If flurries be the food of quests, snow on. Belike upon this Hoth, this barren rock, My next adventure waits. 'Tis time shall tell. And yet, is it adventure that I seek? Shall danger, fear, and action fill my days? Shall all my life be spent in keen pursuit Of great adventure and her fickle fame? What if William Shakespeare had written Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in the Elizabethan era? Could George Lucas’s epic space saga have been told by the Bard of Avon on a 17th Century stage with actors, props, and a script written in iambic pentameter? To many Shakespeare fans (or, for that matter, Star Wars fans), such a mashup seems silly and (gasp) sacrilegious. Shakespeare and Lucas are, after all, separated from each other by several centuries and their distinct narrative styles. In 2013, first-time author Ian Doescher succes