Hollywood's gonna rape Roadside Picnic

Bakerman on 28/1/2011 at 22:13

Quote Posted by icarus-liquorice

(one that is pleasing and awesome everytime you see it)

I wouldn't mind if it also, you know, had something to do with the source material. I think (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/) Children of Men is the closest thing I've seen to my ideal Stalker/Roadside Picnic movie. The whole single-take thing that went on was just spectacular... really made the whole thing incredibly naturalistic. The violence was brutal without being exploitative (which I really appreciated!), the mostly music-less atmosphere was by turns creepy and vaguely comforting, and while I didn't get too much from the protagonist, most of the characters were pretty good. ("You're a fascist pig!")

icarus-liquorice on 10/2/2011 at 01:47

I just got done taking a russian film class at my uni last semester, and some of the cultural differences between th US and former Soviet Union are going to be wholly lost if it is made by an America media group. It would feel transgendered or something. Perhaps if a Russian director were allowed to make the film?

Also, Boris Strugatsky is still alive! I wonder what he would do if he had some facet of the project in his hands?

Jahandar on 20/6/2011 at 05:15

I recently rented the Andrei Tarkovsky Stalker film from Netflix and watched it. Its a slow-paced creepy film, but if you're in the mood its very enjoyable and interesting. Those times in SoC when you're moving slowly in the night, it really captures the feeling of the movie quite well.

Has anyone read the book?

dexterward on 20/6/2011 at 12:15

I`ve read it as a kid ...grew up in Poland, and back then we didn`t have much access to western SciFi, so Russian authors were quite big. Don`t remember much apart from the mood...and anyway that version I had was heavily messed up and even re-written by censors.

Tracking down the version approved by the authors would require some research I guess...but even the "normal" one + film are much recommended to get into the vibe of STALKER bit more. This game in my ranking sits next to Thief/SS1&2/FO3 not only because I love it`s mechanics, but because it manages to create an incredible mood - something that I seldom `get` in videogames.

Eastern Europe fashioned some certain style of gallows humour & cheerful fatalism at the Communist time...and you can sort of find it in the game too. Plus, the environments are spot on - it`s not only Chernobyl, this sort of "look" goes on everywhere in the region...

Didn`t know about the film project...and I wish I didn`t - so this bit of info goes quickly to join "Akira" remake in my mind`s trash bin.

I`m more worried for Stalker 2 vs The Consoles thingy :/

Jahandar on 20/6/2011 at 22:29

Cool, I'll definitely have to get my hands on a copy.

Wow, on amazon the special edition is selling for as much as $200

Muzman on 21/6/2011 at 02:19

You can get english translations in quite a few old 'sci-fi classics' sort of series. I've seen it in second hand book stores a couple of times. There's also one floating around on the net, which I think is from one of these. The preface and translator's foreword don't seem to suggest it was censored in any way.

242 on 21/6/2011 at 23:07

Quote Posted by Jahandar

I recently rented the Andrei Tarkovsky Stalker film from Netflix and watched it. Its a slow-paced creepy film, but if you're in the mood its very enjoyable and interesting.