Bored of the Rings movie?
Nuki Mouse
a movie of the parody book "Bored of the Rings" by Havard (National)
Lampoon?
Could it be done? After all a large portion of the book is slapstick, not
puns. Most verbal/dialog based jokes are distortions of the charaters or
location names, examples:
Gandalf = Goodgulf
Bilbo = Dildo
Frodo = Frito
Aragorn = Arrowroot (son of Arrowshirt)
The Shire = The Sty
Mordor = Fordor (pronounced Four-Door), right next to the land of Twodor.
The book is ROTFLOL funny, I would suggest it to anyone familiar with to
LotR to read it.
I would think National Lampoon would still own the rights to it, and given
the success of similar parody films like "Airplane!" and the "Police Squad"
movies I think it would be a success.
(Yes, I know Nat. Lampoon did not make either of those films)
Anybody else have any thoughts on this?
Nuki Mouse
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...Sorry, that was a really lame joke, but I just couldn't help myself.
Greg Moritz
> Given the popularity of the LotR movies, do you think ayone might
> try making a movie of the parody book "Bored of the Rings" by
> Havard (National) Lampoon?
>
> Could it be done? After all a large portion of the book is slapstick, ...
> ...
> The book is ROTFLOL funny, I would suggest it to anyone familiar
> with to LotR to read it.
>
> Anybody else have any thoughts on this?
I found most of the humor in the book to be in the narratives
describing how bizzare or weird things were.
My favorite line in the book was a description of the Stye
... most boggie (Hobbit) towns looked as though some
large and untidy creature, perhaps a dragon, had quite
recently suffered a series of disappointing bowel
movements in the vicinity.
I don't know how you would put something like the above on
the screen, but narrative sarcasm is about 50% of the humor.
I recently scored a used copy of the book to send do my uncle
for $2. I sent it along to him, but prepared a little preview
for him located here:
http://home.att.net/~g1moritz/assgoblin/bored1.htm
For those not familiar with the book, you can get an idea
of what it is like. I scanned parts of about 15-20 pages.
HoopsBhoy67
>From: "Nuki Mouse" nos...@aks.me.for.address.com
>Date: 15/01/2004 05:31 GMT Standard Time
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>Anybody else have any thoughts on this?
Yes, it would be grossly pathetic.
Mhw61
>
> ... most boggie (Hobbit) towns looked as though some
> large and untidy creature, perhaps a dragon, had quite
> recently suffered a series of disappointing bowel
> movements in the vicinity.
My favorite bits are when BOTR reduces Tolkien's 2 paragraph discussion on
which goblin king the Bullroarer Took killed to the simple "Either Arglebargle
IV, or somebody else."
and when the Black Beaver claims that
"Either my horse threw a shoe or my boat sank, I don't remember which."
Max
"And you know what they said? Well some of it was true"
--The Clash
Dogger
> Sorry about the double posting, I've been having problems with my ISP.
>
> Nuki Mouse
Don't worry about it. Accidental double postings are a fairly regular
occurrence on USENET. I just did one myself. There will always be
someone to try to nail you for the slightest mistake.
DB.
Graeme
> Could it be done? After all a large portion of the book is slapstick, not
> puns. Most verbal/dialog based jokes are distortions of the charaters or
> location names, examples:
> Gandalf = Goodgulf
That would probably have to be changed. And there's a lot of other
anachronistic humor in there.
>>Bilbo = Dildo
There's no way they'd use that in a movie.
> I would think National Lampoon would still own the rights to it, and given
> the success of similar parody films like "Airplane!" and the "Police Squad"
> movies I think it would be a success.
> (Yes, I know Nat. Lampoon did not make either of those films)
Calling it "National Lampoon's Bored of the Rings" would probably lose
half the audience. But do they even own it, or was the "Harvard
Lampoon" something completely different? As far as I know, the book
is owned by Henry Beard and the estate of Douglas Kenney, not National
Lampoon. Beard is still around. I think he published some kind of
guide to being Politically Correct or something like that a couple of
years ago.
>>Anybody else have any thoughts on this?
I agree with whoever said that much of it was narrative humor that
wouldn't transfer over. A lot more of it is based on parodying
*specific* passages from the book, that someone who had seen the
Jackson movies, but not read the book wouldn't understand. There's
also a lot of anachronistic humor and names based on references to
things that most modern viewers wouldn't understand.
I don't think whoever owns it would want to do it. And if they did,
I'm not sure they'd be legally able to. But if somehow they did, I
think a cartoon would capture the spirit of it better than a live
action.
Mhw61
>think a cartoon would capture the spirit of it better than a live
>action.
I think simply redubbing Bakshi's version might work.
Nuki Mouse
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>>SNIP<<
> Calling it "National Lampoon's Bored of the Rings" would probably lose
> half the audience. But do they even own it, or was the "Harvard
> Lampoon" something completely different? As far as I know, the book
> is owned by Henry Beard and the estate of Douglas Kenney, not National
> Lampoon. Beard is still around. I think he published some kind of
> guide to being Politically Correct or something like that a couple of
> years ago.
Harvard Lampoon was the original name of National Lampoon.
>>SNIP<<
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Nuki_Mouse
Sue
screen, since so much of its humor is a textually based parody of
Tolkien's writing style. I can more easily see a parody fantasy quest
film that looks like LotR and has a lot of the same elements, but isn't
a parody of LotR per se. That way they could avoid any legal problems
with the Tolkien state or New Line.
Sue :)
Greg Moritz
> >>Bilbo = Dildo
>
> There's no way they'd use that in a movie.
I could list ten words that are worse, IMHO than
that "dildo" that I seem to hear regularly in
movies. I disagree.
> ... if somehow they did, I think a cartoon would
> capture the spirit of it better than a live action.
I agree. It would be perfect for Pixar.
Hamilton Nash
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I would enjoy seeing two things in any such film -
1) the exchange between Gimlet and Legolam at the Council of L. Ron (???? it
has been a VERY long time )
2) The Ball Hog :)
actually, come to think of it, Goodgulf in his white nehru jacket would be
worth laughing at as well. And what about Serutanland? And Sorehed, and
........
>
> Sue :)
>
Graeme
> I think simply redubbing Bakshi's version might work.
>
> Max
That might be the best way to make a Lord of the Rings parody. Just
do a "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" job on Bakshi's stinkburger. It
wouldn't really work as a Bored of the Rings movie though, because
Bored includes things that Bakshi left out, like Tom Bombadil. (And
even if Bombadil had been in there, he wouldn't look right for Tim
Benzedrine).
I'm seriously miffed that Bakshi's movie never made it onto Mystery
Science Theater. Though they'd never have gotten the rights to it.
The only "big" movie they ever did was Marooned.
Graeme
> I would enjoy seeing two things in any such film -
>
> 1) the exchange between Gimlet and Legolam at the Council of L. Ron (???? it
> has been a VERY long time )
>>
No, it was Orlon. But interestingly, Ellron was the name of the owner
of the white house in the computer game Zork I (though the fact isn't
mentioned until later). A bit shameless there.
> 2) The Ball Hog :)
>
> actually, come to think of it, Goodgulf in his white nehru jacket would be
> worth laughing at as well. And what about Serutanland? And Sorehed, and
> ........
Well, we pretty much saw Moxie and Pepsi in PJ's movie.
Count Menelvagor
> screen, since so much of its humor is a textually based parody of
> Tolkien's writing style. I can more easily see a parody fantasy quest
My favorite bit is the Prologue. "A government that would be
considered unusually crude in a colony of cherrystone clams," "either
Arglebargle IV or someone else," and other textual touches. And of
curse Tim Bnzedrine is brilliant. A lot of the later stuff is
poorish.
The e-text movie wd be interesting, if postmodern ... (speaking of
which, anyone read the Epilogue? It's quite good.
UKREB
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"Hordes of the things",It was quite funny :)
>
Graeme
hear regularly in movies. I disagree.
>>
You can use worse words than that in a movie, but actually naming a character
that... I dunno, there are so few parody movies to go by. Maybe they'd cast
Phil Silvers and call him Bilko Baggins.
>> ... if somehow they did, I think a cartoon would
>> capture the spirit of it better than a live action.
>>I agree. It would be perfect for Pixar.
Yes! Pixar would be perfect.
