Post by roverpup on Mar 24, 2017 13:08:06 GMT
Honestly I don't think from what I have read about the book's premise that it sounds like Highlander or Age of Adaline to me.
Highlander was very grim in tone and mainly about beings who were warriors who could only be killed by decapitation. What part of that story sounds like it was crafted by someone whose writing has been described as "Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy"?
Age of Adaline seems also to be a very different story as well. Firstly it is about someone who accidentally stops aging and is a story on a very personal level. There doesn't seem to be any of the sense of history that Haig's story will encompass. And I think that makes a huge difference in the whole tone of the story. How to Stop Time seems, from the description, to be a much more fluid story, which takes a long view of the condition of humanity (owing to the fact that the main character is supposed to have lived over 400 years and not just 80) that the other tale just can't play around with.
Sure there is a common trope of a being whose life span is elongated but that can be played so many ways as to make each storyline utterly unique. To think otherwise to me would be like refusing to taste a new recipe because you have eaten "chicken" in the past.
So very much depends on those all important details. And those "details" are the very things that can be fashioned, by those making the film from this material, into a movie that can be a perfect vehicle for BC's talents that makes me salivate thinking of what might be in store.
I want to stress that this is just my personal opinion and I am not saying anyone else's interpretations are wrong or not valid. These are just my ideas about this topic and the way I feel.
:-))
Highlander was very grim in tone and mainly about beings who were warriors who could only be killed by decapitation. What part of that story sounds like it was crafted by someone whose writing has been described as "Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy"?
Age of Adaline seems also to be a very different story as well. Firstly it is about someone who accidentally stops aging and is a story on a very personal level. There doesn't seem to be any of the sense of history that Haig's story will encompass. And I think that makes a huge difference in the whole tone of the story. How to Stop Time seems, from the description, to be a much more fluid story, which takes a long view of the condition of humanity (owing to the fact that the main character is supposed to have lived over 400 years and not just 80) that the other tale just can't play around with.
Sure there is a common trope of a being whose life span is elongated but that can be played so many ways as to make each storyline utterly unique. To think otherwise to me would be like refusing to taste a new recipe because you have eaten "chicken" in the past.
So very much depends on those all important details. And those "details" are the very things that can be fashioned, by those making the film from this material, into a movie that can be a perfect vehicle for BC's talents that makes me salivate thinking of what might be in store.
I want to stress that this is just my personal opinion and I am not saying anyone else's interpretations are wrong or not valid. These are just my ideas about this topic and the way I feel.
:-))