If you could write a book or make a movie

[Miss Chicken]

Would this book/movie mention the 1000s of posts you have made on this board?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'd write a book about myself and then allow David Lynch to make a movie adaptation. It'd be fun stuff.

If you say "Mommmmmmy, baby wants to fuck" I'm hightailing it out of the theater.

 

[Australis]

I still want to write MadBaggins: The Opera!

As to book/movie, probably a movie. As to who... so many choices. Many people have interesting stories, even if they aren't famous. I'll get back to you.

 

[sidious618]

Would this book/movie mention the 1000s of posts you have made on this board?

Is that an insult?

I'd write a book about myself and then allow David Lynch to make a movie adaptation. It'd be fun stuff.

If you say "Mommmmmmy, baby wants to fuck" I'm hightailing it out of the theater.

"I'm here. Where are you?"

 

[doubleohfive]

^ Side note: Anyone else suspect that MadBaggins is also a certain former poster whose initials were also MB? This person was a major poster around here...

Subtle.

 

[scotpens]

I'd write and/or produce a biopic about Phil Spector.

The man may be a batshit crazy murderer, but he sure produced a lot of good music.

 

[Niorah]

^ Side note: Anyone else suspect that MadBaggins is also a certain former poster whose initials were also MB? This person was a major poster around here...

Subtle.

Let it go. Seriously. It has become an absolute tedium seeing you stalk MLB across the board with your belittling ( and sometimes just plain bullying) comments.
What the hell, has he killed your cat to deserve this kind of treatment?

Your crusade has been going on for -years-. Time to let it go. If you don't like him, don't read his posts. Put him on ignore. Just give it a rest.

This said, I would like to write a book about my grandmother. She was born in 1915 and lived to be 90, through some major events of the 20th century. I think it would make for an interesting read.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I've already done the books and comics thing, so I'd probably want to make a movie about Rasputin.

Come to think of it, I should probably write a book about my dad and his platoon from his army days sometime- friends with headhunters, and the platoon single-handedly invaded East Germany at one point in the 60s (which is also a very funny story)...

 

[TerokNor]

I would not choose a known person, but pick someone "ordinary"... some children or teens, who surly have a lot to say about what they wish for in society. Someone on the botton of society, someone that lives with a mentally/ physical handicap or someone who has gone through a psychotic phase or whatever. And there families too.
I would make a documentary about what they want, think, feel, how there life is, what they dream about and so on.
In short I would do a film about the people who are usually the "weakest" in our society and should have more voice and more listeners. In a serious, interessted, respectful way.

TerokNor

 

[Wynterhawk]

Sophie Okenedo, because she's just that fantastic.

 

[trekkiebaggio]

I think it would be interesting to do a 'biopic' of TOS. Star Trek: Behind the Final Frontier or something like that.

I'd love to do one about Elvis, but I don't think anyone could come close to portraying how phenomenal he was.

Clint Eastwood would be good as well, Hugh Jackman to star

 

[ManOnTheWave]

A movie about Man Ray, or Picasso. Or possibly a biopic about Jean Luc Goddard done in the style of the French New Wave. Or a la Sidious, how about a biopic of David Lynch done in his own style? That would be a riot.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I've always wanted to write a screenplay about magician Jasper Maskelyne's and A Force's ("The Magic Gang") exploits during WWII.

Maskelyne joined the Royal Engineers when the Second World War broke out, thinking that his skills could be used in camouflage. He convinced skeptical officers by creating the illusion of a German warship on the Thames using mirrors and a model. He was eventually deployed to the African theatre in the Western Desert, although he spent most of his time entertaining the troops.

In January 1941, General Archibald Wavell created A Force for subterfuge and counterintelligence. Maskelyne was assigned to serve in it and gathered a group of 14 assistants, including an architect, art restorer, carpenter, chemist, electrical engineer, electrician, painter, and stage-set builder. It was nicknamed the Magic Gang.

The Magic Gang built a number of illusions. They used painted canvas and plywood to make jeeps look like tanks — with fake tank tracks — and tanks look like trucks. They created illusions of armies and battleships.

His largest illusion was to conceal Alexandria and the Suez Canal to misdirect German bombers. He built a mockup of the night-lights of Alexandria in a bay three miles away with fake buildings, lighthouse, and anti-aircraft batteries. To mask the Suez Canal he built a revolving cone of mirrors that created a wheel of spinning light nine miles wide, meant to dazzle and disorient enemy pilots so that their bombs would fall off-target.

In 1942 he worked in Operation Bertram, before the battle of El Alamein. His task was to make German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel think that the attack was coming from the south when British General Bernard Montgomery planned to attack from the north. In the north, 1,000 tanks were disguised as trucks. On the south, the Magic Gang created 2,000 fake tanks with convincing pyrotechnics. There was a fake railway line, fake radio conversations, and fake sounds of construction. They also built a fake water pipeline and made it look as if it would never be ready before attack.

His efforts were largely unrecognized with the exception of a few mentions in books (including his own) and articles, so it would be nice if he received his due.

Sounds brilliant! And like it could be quite commercial. Sort of a WWII version of Ocean's 11.

 

[UssGlenn]

Movie about Captain Eddie Rickenbacher. They did areally awful version in 1945. The story deserves better treatment, plus there's all the stuff that he did after 1945.

 

[scotpens]

I'd love to do one about Elvis, but I don't think anyone could come close to portraying how phenomenal he was.

Besides, it's already been done at least twice. Kurt Russell was excellent as The King in the 1979 TV-movie.

 

[doubleohfive]

^ Side note: Anyone else suspect that MadBaggins is also a certain former poster whose initials were also MB? This person was a major poster around here...

Subtle.

Let it go. Seriously. It has become an absolute tedium seeing you stalk MLB across the board with your belittling ( and sometimes just plain bullying) comments.
What the hell, has he killed your cat to deserve this kind of treatment?

Your crusade has been going on for -years-. Time to let it go. If you don't like him, don't read his posts. Put him on ignore. Just give it a rest.

This said, I would like to write a book about my grandmother. She was born in 1915 and lived to be 90, through some major events of the 20th century. I think it would make for an interesting read.

Wow, overreact much?

Had I known a one word comment that, if we're being honest here, wasn't entirely undeserved, would set you off, I might have thought better about posting it.

I don't know why you have singled me out for this obviously heinous and horrible atrocity against Mr. Laser Beam; while it's true he and I have had our disagreements in the past, I don't think it's ever escalated to the melodramatic, bad soap opera level you are suggesting. Granted, in the "Friendship Outside the BBS" thread it started to get ugly; you will note that I stopped posting in that thread after Mark de Vries commented in there.

Further, even if it had gotten to be that bad, I would like to think that despite our disagreements, Mr. Laser Beam would be able to address it with me directly via PM where we'd be able to discuss the matter as adults.

Or, if Mr. Laser Beam felt uncomfortable doing that or for some reason believed that I would be unresponsive to his message, he would have gone to the moderators and they would have given me the proper talking-to about conduct and treatment of other posters on this BBS.

And while I am cognizant of the fact that I am not the only person who tends to disagree with Mr. Laser Beam on occasion (I can name at least four other posters right off the top of my head who do as well, on occasion, disagree with him), it's rather unfair I think for you to target your rage and disgust over this issue at me.

So far neither the moderators nor Mr. Laser Beam have addressed these issues with me personally, so I have been left to assume that Mr. Laser Beam and I can still stand the odd argument or two without it getting ridiculously ugly, as it now seemingly has between you and I.

I don't know what I could have possibly done to inspire such ire from you nor do I really see why you are inserting yourself in the middle of it. Until today, I had no quarrel with you. Clearly I assumed incorrectly.

If you don't like me, maybe you should follow your own advice and put me on ignore. As with many other posters I have interacted with over the years here, I have no real problem with Mr. Laser Beam. Either way, I will thank you Niorah to cease making such negative assertions about me. I certainly would not do that to you or anyone else.

Moderators, sorry to rehash this - I will not bring this up again here though. Niorah, if you would like to discuss this further, my inbox is wide open.

On topic: I would write a book about my Aunt Helen, who wasn't really my aunt, just a friendly neighbor I knew growing up. She lived to be 105, lived through three centuries and saw all kinds of history unfold around her and she was one of the dearest, most wonderful people in the world.

 

[Starbreaker]

Nefertiti. Seriously... could be a cool movie.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Rod Serling.

 

[Finn]

Picture this... Portland, Maine 1910. A very elderly Joshua Chamberlain in a rocking chair on a porch, when a group of small boys sees him. They ask him if he was really Chamberlain. The very old man starting rambling on about Gettysburg, and how he actually tripped when he stood up. His men assumed he was telling them to charge. Then a voice comes from inside the building, tell him that was yesterday.

 

[Australis]

^ You may have to explain that a little more for foreign devils.