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story Adapting My Own Short Story - Some Questions

I'm thinking of adapting a short story of mine, the story is titled A Toast To Madness
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/266961-a-toast-to-madness
You can read it there ^

Anyway, it has no dialogue, so I imagine I MIGHT (well, actually, I probably) would end up adapting it as a silent movie. I'd only need a few actors and in theory could run it on a minimal budget.
Just wondering how I'd go about adapting it, particularly as I have no dialogue.

Would it just be a matter of writing out the actions as they happen in the story?

Cheers (:
 
I read it.

Several things worry me about turning this into a film.

1. A lot is internal dialogue, perhaps more than half would simply be unfilmable, and just cut. So what's left?

2. A guy sits and drinks and sees an apparition outside, and sits and drinks, and perhaps has some sort of nightmare, and sits and drinks.

In that equation, perhaps the nightmare is the most interesting part. The rest is sort of like watching paint dry. The last concern...

3. Alcohol has never given me any wild hallucinations. You may want to change drugs.

Good luck.
 
I read it.

Several things worry me about turning this into a film.

1. A lot is internal dialogue, perhaps more than half would simply be unfilmable, and just cut. So what's left?

2. A guy sits and drinks and sees an apparition outside, and sits and drinks, and perhaps has some sort of nightmare, and sits and drinks.

In that equation, perhaps the nightmare is the most interesting part. The rest is sort of like watching paint dry. The last concern...

3. Alcohol has never given me any wild hallucinations. You may want to change drugs.

Good luck.

1. Internal dialogue, in theory that could be VO narration?

2. That's true, I guess something needs to be done to add to it in between nightmare sequences.

3. The idea of it when I wrote it was that he drinks as he thinks about his past. The thinking about his past is what drives the hallucinations. But in theory changing to drugs would certainly make the idea stronger.
 
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