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[ceitfianna]

Today's question is non-fiction inspired. If someone were to write a book or make a movie about your pup's life what would be changed? Who would create it and read it? What variations might happen and would they change through time?

Would it be something like the Civil War that has so many angles on one event or a little known historical thing that only the really dedicated scholars look into?

The icon is from Macedonia and connected vaguely to Alexander the Great who got a very good deal out of history.

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[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Two words: Keanu Reeves.

[ceitfianna]

*snerks* Poor John, he deserves better.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Too many pups to consider for this question so I'll just go with Ben. I don't know if you intend for the pup to have any sort of creative control over the project but I'll assume so.

Ben's life would have to be a trilogy at least; there's just so much canon. He would fight hard to keep all of it there, even the bad times, especially the times he wasn't the most pleasant person. He'd do this because he would want to viewer to know that heroes are complex and aren't these ideals that media makes them out to be.

He'd love to have Bruce Willis play him in the movie and there was a rumor going around that he had been tapped for the Fantastic Four movie reboot, mostly as a voice over for a CGI Thing.

Chances are his life pre-transformation would have to be a montage of flashbacks to make room for the more glamorous aspects of the life with the Fantastic Four.

[ceitfianna]

Its a question that's very open to interpretation. I've been reading a fascinating non-fiction book so it got me thinking about how perceptions change through that lens.

I'd go see that movie. Or maybe it could be a mini-series.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

It think Ken Burns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns) would have to direct it if it were going to be a mini-series. And I think I'd want to see it also.

ETA: You know it just occurred to me that Ben already deals with this. Marvel Comics as we read them exist in the Marvel Universe and Ben is complaining about how they never get his good side all the time.

[accipiterpuella.livejournal.com]

ETA: You know it just occurred to me that Ben already deals with this. Marvel Comics as we read them exist in the Marvel Universe and Ben is complaining about how they never get his good side all the time.

THANK YOU. I was going to point this out, but you beat me to it.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

It was a rather D'oh! moment on my part (even the Celestial thinks so). BTW I will get back to the tags I owe; work and home is being crazy.

ETA: Actually I did forget to mention that some of the comics are even submissible as evidence in a court of law thanks to the Comic Code.

[waxwontbeenough.livejournal.com]

...and that last was first mentioned, I believe, by She-Hulk. :-D

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I must say I love some of the ideas Slott has come up with.

[genarti]

You know, there probably are fictionalized accounts of the Gundam pilots around in GWverse already. Eyewitness memoirs, "my unnamed sources I may have just made up TOTALLY SWEAR THIS," etc. Everything is still highly classified, though, and the people involved are mostly very secretive, so I'm sure they're hilariously wrong in any number of ways. Trowa finds this amusing, and also gratifying. It's nice when people get all the facts of your life wrong, including the fact that you were the one living it!

It's probably too soon after the war to really have a lot of war films and freewheeling WHO NEEDS HISTORICAL ACCURACY reworkings, but it won't always be. I enjoy speculating on just how brainbreaking this will be. (I think Jo and I spent an hour or two once coming up with a hypothetical show in which everyone is portrayed by Hollywoodesque hunks, everybody's personalities are completely wrong, 05 is a Plucky Young Woman, etc.)

[ceitfianna]

Oh my that sounds like a lot of fun to think on.

I mean the actual canon is cracky enough as it is but then you add in people who don't know the whole story.

[genarti]

Which is pretty much the entire world, ICly! And the Gundams were both very high-profile and very mysterious. So there's a lot of potential for hilarity, even just from hearing passersby speculating or something. Which has to have happened, of course, during and after canon alike.

I'm pretty sure Trowa keeps tabs on any fictionalized accounts floating about. The hilarity is absolutely a factor, but it's basically a side benefit for him; he likes to be aware of what other people are speculating, and if anyone's getting a suspicious amount correct.

[ceitfianna]

I can completely see Trowa doing that and adding quiet comments that make accounts even more wrong.

Since spreading disinformation is something he would do as it works out protecting the truth.

[genarti]

>.>

If the chance came up, sure! Or with a carefully masked sock puppet online, maybe. He wouldn't be too active about seeking out opportunities without a good reason to do so, and obviously there's no point in sounding as if you know what you're talking about with no reason to know that. But if there's an easy chance (or an important reason to manipulate chances), sure! Misinformation is useful. And occasionally a fun private joke.

[kd7sov]

There is already, sort of, a book about Felix's life. In Dark Dawn the player can pick up the five parts of the "Sun Saga", which recounts the events of the first two games. Felix gets rather a raw deal out of it. He's not, technically, cast as a villain, but it doesn't really show the protagonist Lost Age presents him as.

(In my headcanon, he doesn't especially care, preferring to stay out of the public eye as much as he can.)

[ceitfianna]

That's a clever way to help a player who doesn't know the other game to get some background.

[kd7sov]

Oh, definitely. And it's presented nicely, too - animated paper cutouts that are really quite cute, in addition to the words of the narrative.

[minkhollow]

There wouldn't be one about Claudia. Super-Secretville and all that.
Though there would likely be some sort of record in the Warehouse itself, not to mention a shelf (if not more) of stuff she's made.

[ceitfianna]

I wonder if the Warehouse has their own archivist, it seems like having someone who does that would fit.

[minkhollow]

So far, one hasn't been mentioned, but I wouldn't be all that surprised. The place does have an epic library (first editions of EVERYTHING EVER).

[ceitfianna]

Ooh, that sounds amazing. There must have been an agent or two who became the librarian since someone has to organize things.

[accipiterpuella.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. This is a question that requires lots of thought (like all of your DE topics, Fi).

Shulkie's biopic would be directed by Quentin Tarantino, who lobbies hard for the directing job. Shulkie reluctantly agrees to having him direct eventually. But he does such an over-the-top bang up job at it that she's won over. He hits all the high and low points of her life and manages to not include her nude jump roping episode (where she actually wasn't nude). Adam Beach would play Wyatt Wingfoot, the man Shulkie almost married.

Hawkgirl: Her situation is more complex. She wants an arty French director who will tell her story and make it fraught with symbolism. She also insists that it be visually lush. She'd ask that he include depictions of at least four of her past lives in the film.

Lockjaw: The Inhumans would probably not allow a film crew to follow him around because he'd randomly decide to teleport the director to Titan for a visit with the Eternals.

Siryn: She'd want Neil Jordan to direct the story of her life, but then decide her life isn't interesting enough on its own to merit a full-length film, so she'd insist that it be about X-Force as a whole.

Black Mamba: Purrrrr goes Mamba. She wouldn't allow anyone to film her life since so much of what she does is super sekrit.

[ceitfianna]

I'm glad you like them. I write them at the start of an early shift and they make me happy.

I would definitely watch all of these since they sound as different and fascinating as the women in them.

Warning!

[accipiterpuella.livejournal.com]

WARNING: The film about Siryn's era in X-Force would be LOUD. Think about the superpowers each member had:

Siryn: Audiokinesis, aka screaming loud enough to knock down a ten-story building.

Rictor: Earthquake powers.

Boom Boom: Boom boom.

Jimmy Proudstar: PUNCH.

Feral: Okay, no loud powers but loud in general.

Cannonball: BOOM every time he blasts off.

Shatterstar: Not loud, actually.

Domino: Guns, guns, guns.

Cable: More guns and add in RPGs.

Re: Warning!

[ceitfianna]

Hee, its also Marvelverse. Nothing is ever small there, its always go big or go home.

Re: Warning!

[accipiterpuella.livejournal.com]

I never thought of it that way but yes, that's it: go big or GO HOME. Heh!!

[ashen_key]

I've actually always figured that, a few years down the track, they are going to make movies about what goes down in Avatar canon. I suspect both Jake and Trudy would either die laughing, or want to shoot people.

[ceitfianna]

*snerks* I can see that. I can also see historians arguing over it as other people go, oh Jake, I love you.

[ashen_key]

Jake, and also Trudy - the golden girl turned traitor.

Yeah, the historians and movie-makers could have FUN.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine would've said Farrah Fawcett, back when she was alive, but will settle for Pam Anderson; clearly, her story is a weekly serial drama like 'Police Woman', only more glamorous.

She's talked repeatedly in canon about writing a self-help book of some kind, for anything from surviving a one-night stand to matching your colors. She probably even has the marketing all pre-done for her.

[ceitfianna]

*snerks* Clem is awesome.

[hey35andholding]

I love how ambitious she is, even though she's got little-to-no-agency financially.

She's also created some kind of perfume called 'One-Night Stand' that smells like booze and cigarette ashes. IDEK.