My dream adaptation above all others is Moby Dick. A psychedelic, hyper masculine, hyper real version shot like 300 and scored by Nick Cave and SLEEP.
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it's lovecraft before lovecraft "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask"
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And Ahab is the ultimate edgelord, even more so than Milton's Satan because above all else he's both blustery and enigmatic.
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I remember thinking It was gonna be like... Dickens but about whaling and instead it was like a teenage cormac mccarthy listening to metallica and trying to adapt a black light poster of the ocean into a book. Love it.
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