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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 8396533" data-attributes="member: 6688049">For some time, I've been advocating something which I call "certified unabridged filmbooks." ("CUFs") It's a new genre and format of film-making. Throughout the history of cinema, films based on books are never unabridged. (Can you name even one?) They always compress the story into a "filmic" format (or, rarely, expand the story, as seen in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit). Filmmakers always modify the dialogue and many other aspects. Due to cost and theater time constraints, but also due to hubris, and "generalization" for a mass audience (i.e. dumbed down).But with pay-to-view services such as Netflix, "unabridged filmbooks" could become feasible now. They're like unabridged audiobooks, but filmed! Can be either live-action or animated. If animated, could recreate the exact style of the original illustrations (if the book was illustrated). For The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, this would be W.W. Denslow's illustrations.I call them "certified", because the director would guarantee to audiences that every line of dialogue is included in the film; and every visual detail (such as the characters' dress and landscape) are rendered as described in the book. So no filmic grey hat for Gandalf...in the certified unabridged filmbook, he has a blue hat and a silver scarf, like the books say so.Unspoken thoughts and narration are also included, either as voice-over or as subtitles (which could be toggled on or off). The whole book is there.Like unabridged audiobooks, Certified Unabridged Filmbooks run for many hours. 4 hours for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.Given the overwhelming iconicity of the MGM version, which is far more iconic than the actual book, for a live-action WWoO CUF, I'd like to see a collaboration with MGM.-Use a lookalike actors (Judy Garland, etc.) which exactly model the 1939 film, except where it diverges from the book. E.g. Silver slippers instead of ruby slippers.-Cut out the musicals, and -There will be many more scenes, which were cut out: the Kaolin porcelin folk, etc.-Emulate the retro Technicolor film stock.I think the combo of visual nostalgia (the actor lookalikes) plus showing the whole story, could make for a huge success.</blockquote>

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