I want to see a movie where . . . ?

Your Mother Was A Hamster And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries

I love movies, but I have a special love for small stories.
Cop Car was about 2 kids who find a police car, and decide it’s theirs now.

I’d like to see a movie about a young daughter of a mafia henchman who is angry with the mob who let him go to prison. Through small maneuvers, gets the mob boss busted by the cops. Her father cleared and released.

I would like to see a movie where two people fall in love with each other. The problem is that one person already has a partner and isn’t happy with them, and now the other person has to do something to get rid of the other person so that they could get together with their loved one. Only that… the loved one is actually a manipulator and just needs a convenient hand to kill their partner so that they don’t have to.

It may sounds like every film-noir ever, with all the witty conversations, dark lighting and gritty, cynical plot, but the twist is that the movie isn’t set in 1950s America. It is actually set in a much earlier period than that. Maybe in the 19th century? Or even the American Revolutionary War???

I was made aware of this peculiar case from this article (scroll to Joshua Spooner and Bathsheba Ruggles). My first reaction when I saw this was “wow, this should be a film-noir!” Indeed, it has so many film-noir elements to it. A woman bored with her husband decided to lure a bunch of men into killing her husband in exchange of “love”, and the result was a trail of unnecessary dead bodies piling up. It’s basically film-noir in the 18th century. This is a very obscure case, but if someone sees the film-noir potential and make it into a movie, I will rush to see it even if I have to pay $1000 for the ticket!

@Mimishu1995 that reminds me of Diabolique. Not the same, but some similar elements. If you can find it, see the 1955 version with Simone Signoret.

That makes Nobel prize level education fun, and accessible to the typical high school graduate. All Nobel prizes , including economics and peace prize.

@Mimishu1995 A film noir minus the fedoras, snub nose pistols, and people who talk like George Raft or Humphrey Bogart? I can’t see it.

@Nomore sadly no fedora, but pistols are guaranteed! And Humphrey Bogart could star a cynical, world-weary soldier who got involved in the war because he had nowhere to go, and just wanted to settle down with a woman. There is just so much room for witty, Humphrey Bogart exchanges!

In the future scientists have begun to experiment with time. In order to minimise risk, the work is being carried out at a large international facility on the far side of the moon. The project is at an advanced stage and about to force a temporal shift on a 20p cupro-nickel coin bearing the head of Queen Elizabeth II.

A button is pressed and the coin simply fades and disappears. The scientists are puzzled as something is not right and then communication with Earth is lost.

Stoker’s Dracula novel gets another adaptation, more definitive than the rest. Shot in film, projected in film and shot in actual locations with 90 percent practical fx and 10 percent digital. A two-part installment with a running time of 2 hours each.

@mazingerz88. I am reading Dracula now. The Coppola one seems closest, but still different.

^^Coppola was well meaning with his powerful visuals and elaborate costumes but after seeing at as a very good adaptation for years, it ended up just being too much for me. I keep wishing I can watch it without that musical score. It’s great but too overwhelming.

So I want a more down to earth adaptation focusing more on the darkly calculating and patient creepy menace closing in on the main and secondary characters all clueless on the great terror that was about to be inflicted upon them.

I haven’t read enough horror novels but it seems Stoker created the first “mission impossible” team in literary history. By using the epistolary method of revealing each of the characters and how eventually they finally got a clear picture of the great threat, ending up forming an alliance and then coming up with a plan to counter attack…I couldn’t help but see them as a strike team united in newly found comradeship.

That part where all of them finally assembled in the same room was exhilarating to read. That moment was the highlight of the story for me. I want to see that internal aspect of the narrative told in the language of gothic cinema and brilliantly so.

( Btw in Etsy I bought a Dracula book with a great cover. Black faux leather if I’m not mistaken and it looks really creepy. :) )

I was just talking to one of my kids about how funny/not funny it would be to have a great looking action movie where the main character dies out of the blue and the movie abruptly ends. Like when you just know the person can’t die because they are the main character, but then they die and that’s it.