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Anybody read The Screwtape Letters?
Posted on 2/20/14 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 2/20/14 at 11:37 pm
Awesome book. I'm working on making a play adaptation of it. I'm also designing the main characters as comic style illustrations.
Left to right: Wormwood, Screwtape, Unnamed Man (I'm going to name him for my play.)
Left to right: Wormwood, Screwtape, Unnamed Man (I'm going to name him for my play.)
Posted on 2/20/14 at 11:38 pm to MrTide33
Absolutely.
Excellent, excellent read
C.S. Lewis at his very best, IMHO.
Good luck with your adaptation!
Excellent, excellent read
C.S. Lewis at his very best, IMHO.
Good luck with your adaptation!
Posted on 2/20/14 at 11:41 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Thanks Tbird
Somehow I knew you had and would be my first reply
I just finished reading it and realized there's only been like one play adaptation of it and it was pretty literal. Just Screwtape reading his letters basically. Mine is going to be more like a normal play, I will go back and forth between showing the human's life and then the correspondence between Wormwood and Screwtape separately.
Somehow I knew you had and would be my first reply
I just finished reading it and realized there's only been like one play adaptation of it and it was pretty literal. Just Screwtape reading his letters basically. Mine is going to be more like a normal play, I will go back and forth between showing the human's life and then the correspondence between Wormwood and Screwtape separately.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 11:45 pm to MrTide33
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Somehow I knew you had and would be my first reply
I am nothing if not predictable
Read it back in middle school and enjoyed it, then again in HS and got more out of it. Truly a great piece of literature.
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I just finished reading it and realized there's only been like one play adaptation of it and it was pretty literal. Just Screwtape reading his letters basically. Mine is going to be more like a normal play, I will go back and forth between showing the human's life and then the correspondence between Wormwood and Screwtape separately.
That surprises me. The tone lends itself to at least a rather engaging YouTube skit, if not an all-out theater production.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 11:50 pm to TbirdSpur2010
It actually was a all-out theater production, but it just took the play extremely literally.
Screwtape Onstage Website
The only other character besides Screwtape is Toadpipe, his secretary, who is just a creepy contortionist thing
Screwtape Onstage Website
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It was a hit in NYC where it played 309 performances at the Westside Theatre in 2010. Prior to that it ran for six months in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune described THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS as the "most successful show in the history of Chicago's Mercury Theatre." It, also, had two engagements at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. where it played for ten sold-out weeks.
The only other character besides Screwtape is Toadpipe, his secretary, who is just a creepy contortionist thing
Posted on 2/20/14 at 11:55 pm to MrTide33
Thanks for the link
I just think literal isn't the best way to present this story visually. But that's just some business degree holder spouting off, at the end of the day
I just think literal isn't the best way to present this story visually. But that's just some business degree holder spouting off, at the end of the day
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:02 am to TbirdSpur2010
That's my idea. I think most people stay away from it because they see the lack of action and see limitations. I see freedom.
I want some feedback on the character designs, as this is how characters portrayed in the play.
Do the pictures do justice to how you would imagine the characters to look/act?
A couple of fun facts (since we're the only two in this thread )
I'm going to name the human Curtis Sherwood Lewis.
It's giving double credit, one to C.S. Lewis, and one to the picture I used to help design the human character. I found a picture on google images of Lewis Curtis, a British Soldier who died in WWII. his remains were found in 1999 and ID'd in 2008.
Also, I based Screwtape's face off of a picture of CM Punk as Satan
I want some feedback on the character designs, as this is how characters portrayed in the play.
Do the pictures do justice to how you would imagine the characters to look/act?
A couple of fun facts (since we're the only two in this thread )
I'm going to name the human Curtis Sherwood Lewis.
It's giving double credit, one to C.S. Lewis, and one to the picture I used to help design the human character. I found a picture on google images of Lewis Curtis, a British Soldier who died in WWII. his remains were found in 1999 and ID'd in 2008.
Also, I based Screwtape's face off of a picture of CM Punk as Satan
This post was edited on 2/21/14 at 12:04 am
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:04 am to MrTide33
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Curtis Sherwood Lewis.
Like the double credit, and anything beats "Clive Staples," of course
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based Screwtape's face off of a picture of CM Punk as Satan
Awesome
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:06 am to MrTide33
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Do the pictures do justice to how you would imagine the characters to look/act?
Idk, my mind's eye interpreted the demons as having normal-looking visages for camoflaging effect.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:08 am to TbirdSpur2010
This post was edited on 2/21/14 at 12:08 am
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:09 am to MrTide33
Can't see the image on my work computer
Sorry man.
Sorry man.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:10 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Idk, my mind's eye interpreted the demons as having normal-looking visages for camoflaging effect.
Thanks for honest feedback.
In my play's context, they won't be visible to humans at all. There will be scenes where Screwtape are actually in the room with Curtis talking while he is obliviously doing whatever routine things
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:11 am to TbirdSpur2010
Its CM Punk Satan Just for your sake. It'll be there for you later
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:13 am to MrTide33
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In my play's context, they won't be visible to humans at all. There will be scenes where Screwtape are actually in the room with Curtis talking while he is obliviously doing whatever routine things
Yeah, and see, that works just fine, too.
I think I'm just lazy and it was easier for me to visualize them as being normal looking, but in the context of the story, it doesn't really matter
Imma check out your art when I go to the gym in the morning I can only see a few of your images and it's annoying, but I like what I see!
I'm also jealous. Stick figures give me trouble
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:17 am to TbirdSpur2010
Only the first image is my art, the other one is Lewis Curtis pre-paint job.
That's been the interesting thing making these. I learned how to make awesome pictures by painting over other faces. I suck at MSPaint otherwise
With the character art, do they seem to have expressions/features that go with what you think their personality is?
That's been the interesting thing making these. I learned how to make awesome pictures by painting over other faces. I suck at MSPaint otherwise
With the character art, do they seem to have expressions/features that go with what you think their personality is?
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:23 am to MrTide33
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With the character art, do they seem to have expressions/features that go with what you think their personality is?
I like the other two.
With Screwtape himself, perhaps a little more of a "clueless" or "deer-in-the-headlights" kinda look? idk....
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:25 am to TbirdSpur2010
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With Screwtape himself, perhaps a little more of a "clueless" or "deer-in-the-headlights" kinda look?
I'll take this into account. If I made Screwtape more clueless, do you think the current version would be good for Satan?
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:26 am to MrTide33
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If I made Screwtape more clueless, do you think the current version would be good for Satan?
Yesh, my imgaginatively challenged mind could roll with that
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:33 am to TbirdSpur2010
I just realized my Wormwood looks very much like Harry Potter
Thanks again for your feedback.
I cannot guarantee it will affect my decisions
I'll leave you with a quote:
Thanks again for your feedback.
I cannot guarantee it will affect my decisions
I'll leave you with a quote:
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He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
This post was edited on 2/21/14 at 12:35 am
Posted on 2/21/14 at 12:34 am to MrTide33
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I cannot guarantee it will affect my decisions
My advice? Take my words, and do exactly the opposite
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He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand... Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
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