From: Jezzaroona
Category: Amis
Date: 7/15/99
Time: 3:39:09 PM
Remote Name: 195.44.3.186
Craig,
personally I don't mind voiceovers - one of the things that interests me the most about fiction is narrative organisation: the intersection of story and discourse in a temporal framework. This inevitably leads me to be interested in narration: who tells the story within what kind of discourses (excuse my lang. here), to whom it is told and who overhears in the process etc etc. As a result, I tend to like novels with strong voices. As a result I quite like films with narration too - it acknowledges important truths about storytelling.
Also - no-one wants your head on a platter. What most people don't want is a crappy version of London Fields: the movie. Hence the desire to read the screenplay - to see how you've approached what must be a huge (and impossible?) *formal* headache.
PS: It can't be hard to see why many are sceptical. You have been attempting to transpose one of the most important works of one of postwar UK's most linguistically/formally astute novelists into a medium that stresses a concert of spoken voices rather than the sublime texture of a single "silent" voice with its internalised and complex variegations.