Ushered Into a Fall

[Cullen]

There's a new adaptation of Fall of the House of Usher coming.  Information can be found  at Cinescape .  Bits of it follow:

"(The movie) like a lot of modern adaptations, it will be set in modern times and renamed so as not to seem to be based on a work that’s 150 years old."

That paragraph might not be as bad a sign as one might think IF THE PROPER CARE AND THOUGHT GOES INTO THE WORK.  FROM PAST... ahem, from past experience, however, "care" and "thought" seem to be the last things to go into modernized adaptations

"The film, being billed as a psychological thriller"

(Which, let me quickly add, is also not a bad thing, per say, given Poe's obsession for madness.  Sorry, let's continue.)

"(the Film) will use Poe’s USHER as the backbone to tell the story of an author who falls for a woman who may be distantly related to him, only to find the new love affair seems to have something to do with the mysterious disappearances of family members. The writer’s torment is made worse by the specter of a famous writer ancestor whose specter still torments the young scribe."

And how does this make it an adaptation of   Fall of the House of Usher?  Doesn't sound anything like the story to me, but what do I know?  I've only read the damn thing and several critical essays on it.

Don't get me wrong.  At least it's not a slasher movie, like one (or maybe two) adaptations of Fall were.  And it should be better than the Robert Hays version (which I know I've seen but can't quite remember).

But really, does it sound like someone who understands the work is behind the wheel?  Who could do justice to one of the best short stories in American History?

I don't think so.
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Some of the paragraphs above might give the impression that I am some sort of elitist snob, for which I wish to apologize.

I usually hide it better than that...
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I would also like to apologize to the people who read the first version of this post.  I can normally spell better than that.

[Chadzilla]

Cullen wrote:
>
> "(The movie) like a lot of modern adaptations, it will be set
> in modern times and renamed so as not to seem to be based on
> a work that’s 150 years old."
>
>  

Chadzilla (who is a struggling writer and bookworm when not watching b-movies) lowers his head and weeps.

150 at that old!

[Flangepart]

The quote by Dorathy parker sums up putting classic stories in grasping range of a hollywood hack.'....
...."Age before beauty...pearls before swine..."