This sub-chapter, beginning:
"Bid Earth farewell." (p. 497)
- would be represented on screen by a succession of scenes with background music but no dialogue or narrator's voice.
"Most people are gracious." (ibid.)
"Ocean roars..." (ibid.)
"Wheat goldens..." (ibid.)
"Bees buzz..." (ibid.)
"Candle-glow... Silver, porcelain... champagne... Laughter... The soup... courses to come..." (ibid.)
"The canyon wall lifts... Crags rear... The green... a streamlet gleams and whispers." (ibid.)
"...the shrine...piety...memories..." (ibid.)
"...a waterfall...dawn mists... a cuckoo calls." (p. 498)
"A rainshower..." (ibid.)
"...'Goodbye, now, and thank you.'" (ibid.)
That last line would be spoken.
7 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Evocative!
Ad astra! Sean
Something similar to the intro section the Star Trek TNG for the 1st year would be appropriate. Ie: a view of earth receding then other solar system bodies.
Kaor, Jim!
I was never a fan of the STAR TREK TV series and movies. I find them shallow, thin, trite, superficial. I would vastly prefer to watch good, accurate filmed versions of the Nicholas van Rijn and Dominic Flandry stories. See my article "Textual Crawl for Flandry Movies."
Ad astra! Sean
Andrea and I are starting to watch STAR TREK: PICARD which might be better.
Star Trek was one of the better TV SF shows, which still makes it very weak compared to the better book SF, such as anything by Poul Anderson.
I just think that intro with passing by the planets was good & something of the sort would be appropriate for any video version of a story that involves leaving the solar system.
Kaor, Paul and Jim!
Paul: Have fun. But I am not optimistic, considering how terrible most "SF" movies and TV shows are--such as the horrible travesty masquerading as a filmed version of Heinlein's STARSHIP TROOPERS.
Jim: I have no objection to that! I was speaking from my disgust at how unsatisfactory most SF movies and TV shows are.
Ad astra! Sean
STARSHIP TROOPERS: I disliked the book and the film but I understand someone who liked the former disliking the latter. I applaud Scribner for turning down the book despite 12 previous successful Juveniles.
I saw a comic strip travesty: a general was calling for conscription which Heinlein opposed. Free men fight.
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