How about showing what Brad, Flock of Seagulls, Marvin and the boys were up to until Jules and Vincent walked through the door.
Like, how did they get the case. What do they talk about, if not foot massages
Speaking of Hamlet, Ophelia’s POV.
I never felt very sympathetic toward Ben, he just seemed so…aimless. And self-absorbed. I don’t think it’s unusual for a young person to feel somewhat directionless after college, but a lot of Ben’s behavior seemed more like a teenager than a young-but-adult man.
I get the impression that at the time of the movie’s release people saw Mrs. Robinson as an example of the sexual hypocrisy of the older generation, but she seemed to me more the victim of the values of her own time. “Victim” may be too strong a word, since the Robinsons were well-off financially and it didn’t appear that Mr. Robinson was in any way abusive, but she struck me as one of those '50s-'60s housewives suffering from “the problem that has no name”. Her behavior during the course of the movie was very bad, but this was a woman who’d had little chance to live her own life. She’d given up college and any hope of a career to marry a man she didn’t really love and care for a child she hadn’t planned for. With Elaine grown and out of the house there wasn’t much left to occupy her attention. While there are certainly more positive ways she could have dealt with this than drinking too much, seducing younger men, and worst of all lying about it, she also had good reason to want to shake things up.
The last time I watched the movie it occurred to me that Mrs. Robinson may initially have been motivated by a desire to provoke Mr. Robinson into either jealous affection for her or divorce. (It would be another two or three years before “no-fault” divorce laws would have allowed her to divorce him very easily.) The night she makes her first seduction attempt, she tells Ben that her husband won’t be home for hours. He actually comes home just a few minutes later. Did she expect this or not? Was she just looking for a good time, or was she planning for her husband to catch her in flagrante with another man? That’s the kind of thing a story from her perspective could address.
Yes to everything you said. I always thought I was the only one who saw it this way.
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Yes, to everything you said. I always thought I was the only one who saw the movie this way.
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Correct. I was seventeen when it was released, and my tribe definitely saw it as “Sexually Repressed Hypocritical Older Generation” vs “Sexually Open and Free Love Generation.”
We had it all figured out, doncha know.
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A Star Trek series involving the token Terran amongst a crew of Vulcans. Would challenge the creators/writers to devise a more diverse set of Vulcan personalities beyond “We’re all about logic.” [Similar to the challenges awaiting Del Toro/Jackson in dealing with a dozen dwarves in The Hobbit movie]
Well, there’s happy, sleepy, dopey, bashful, grumpy, and sneezy. That puts them halfway there.
Desert Kickboxer from Rooster and Greasy Joe’s point of view.
The Karate Kid, Part III from Dennis’s point of view.
Two from Ira Levin–Rosemary’s Baby from Rosemary’s husband Guy’s POV and The Stepford Wives from Joanna’s husband Walter’s POV.
Both of these guys sell their wives out and for very limited reasons. Guy wants his big break, so he lets his wife be raped, impregnanted and give birth to Satan’s child? Why would Walter agree to have his wife replaced by a robot?
There’s too much going on behind the scenes with both husbands. I’d like to read about the covern meetings and what really goes in in the Stepford Men’s Club.
I’d like to see virtually any Bond film from the perspective of the last nameless, faceless henchman who gets disposed of like so much dirty laundry.
I’ve always wondered what sort of childhood a henchman might have had.
That’s just what he wants you to think! Don’t buy into the Mordor propaganda, man. Still, until they make the movie, check out: sauron.blog
How about The Patriot from the POV of Col. Tavington, the villain?
Or Star Wars from Biggs’s perspective? Or Mace Windu’s?
Or Casablanca from Capt. Renault’s POV?
I would like to have seen a Quantum Leap from the POV of a friend of the Leaped-Into. They should have gotten into the habit of doing one of those a year or so, just to give Scott and Dean a break.
Years and years ago, I wrote a spec script for Buffy that was designed to be a “Michelle Gellar is filming a movie while we need to film this episode, what can we do?” epsiode. Buffy and company only appeared in footage from previous episodes (save for Spike who has a larger role). It detailed the every day lives of two Sunnydale vamps trying to stay under Buffy’s radar. They end up getting swept up as background fodder in just about every season’s Big Bad’s scheme and just barely manage to escape. I forgot how the episode ended, I think Spike or Buffy ended up accidentally staking one of them.
A slight left turn from the topic at hand, but Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey tells the story of a “force of darkness-type god” and asks the question, is the entire world thinks you’re bad, does that become a self-fulfilling prophesy? The god’s point of view is that he is in the right but lost the battle with the other gods – sort of a history is written by the victors kind of thing.
Back to the topic, I’d love to read the Harry Potter series from Snape’s point of view. I know you get a lot in the books, but he’s such an interesting character.
Barbara Hambly wrote a full-length novel: Renfield, Slave of Dracula.
I believe that one of Wodehouse’s stories WAS told from Jeeve’s perspective…
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea from the POV of Nemo’s first mate. What was really going on in these guys minds that made them take up this kind of life. What did they think of Nemo as time went on? What did they think of his"guests", all of whom got treated better than the crew?
Also, The Prisoner of Zenda from Duke Michael’s POV as he tries to save his beloved country from an inbred drunken idiot.
Personalities of the dwarfs