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Dennis Potter was a controversial English dramatist
of your 20th Century.
Harry Potter is a hugely succesful book and film
franchise with lots of money-making spinoffs.
The obvious thing to do is merge the two concepts.
Dennis Potter and the Philosopher Stoned is the
story of a young man
growing up in 1960's Britain.
Despite a sexually abusive upbringing, which leads
him into using cannabis and other "soft" drugs, he
is spotted by an Oxford University talent scout who
recognises his amazing abilities for logical analysis,
and also the fact that he's a smashing bit of rough
trade.
He is therefore told, much to his surprise, that he
has been elected to be the next Waynflete
Professors of Metaphysical Philosophy*, and also
there are several dons who would very much like to
be his bestest friend ever.
The story then follows his story through six futher
episodes, as he explores many aspects of his own
and others sexuality, consumes industrial
quantities of weed and alcohol, teaches philosophy
to bored and indifferent undergraduates, and
eventually leads a desperate battle to protect the
University from massive funding cuts, in which he
finally defeats his enemy, Lord Meanepest.
The musical accompaniment consists of selected
popular songs of the period.
The book/play/film/TV series/coloring book/action
figure playset is guaranteed to earn phenominal
amouts of money, or then again, possibly not.
*which is a real Professorship at Oxford University.
Dennis Potter
http://en.wikipedia...s_Potter#Television
A very strange man [8th of 7, Oct 10 2011]
Harry Potter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_potter
A very strange boy [8th of 7, Oct 10 2011]
Potter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery
A very strange but sometimes useful occupation [8th of 7, Oct 10 2011]
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Thanks, [8th]. Now I'm going to have to watch "Kaorake" and "Cold Lazurus". I'm going to have to read "The Glittering Coffin" and "The Changing Forest: Life in the Forest of Dean Today", aswell. My to-read queue is still back-logged from last deployment. I'm never going to finish all of this. |
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So many books, so little time. Now, if you were Assimilated into the Collective, you would have the advantage of all the books we've already read. And we have some awesome directed-energy weapons, too ... |
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"Cold Lazarus" is well worth the effort. "The Singing Detective" is not so hot IOFFHO* ... "Black Eyes", hmmm .... depends on what you like |
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Did you ever finish "Religio Medici" ? |
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*In Our Far From Humble Opinion |
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Good Will Hunting, with all the necessary juicy bits that were excluded in the original. |
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Be assured that there will be "juicy bits" in profusion. |
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Sorry, Good Will Hunting meets Californication meets Weeds, my bad... |
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Not that it's a bad thing mind... |
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Damn. You've beaten me to it. I was working up a
script for a musical about a bearded tile-maker
who
tries to use his ceramics talents to make an
improved ocarina for a phenomenologist. |
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It was going to be called "Hairy Potter and the
Philosopher's Tone." |
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The huge revenue from that was going to pay for a
Broadway production of my other comic opera,
about a Hindu religious fanatic who steals a book
from policeman at a restaurant. "Hare Krishna and
the Full Officer's Tome" would have been
spectacular. |
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We preferred Duchovny as Fox Mulder. |
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We prefer Gillian Anderson .... well, we just prefer her.... Oooooh. Jeri Ryan with attitude ... |
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// "Hairy Potter and the Philosopher's Tone." // |
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Plagiarism will get you nowhere. Unless, of course, you're Andrew Lloyd Webber, in which case it will get you international fame, fortune, a knighthood, a peerage, several broken marriages, and a reputation that even Jeffrey Archer would be ashamed of. |
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Better than my ecclectic mix of 1900's French Burlesque and Vuadeville: "Hey, Repertoire! and the "fill-a sphere's" volume" |
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//Damn. You've beaten me to it.// |
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Tell me about it! I was about to publish a wild-life documentary about my research on the prevalance of craniofacial-deficits running rampant amongst primagravida of the Lutrinae subfamily and the comorbid social sequalae: |
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Hair-Lipped Otters: Anathema, loss of the first born. |
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And, I gave it about six or eight good stabs, [8th], but I eventually filed it with Sarte's "Being and Nothingness" and "the line of reasoning used by women". (outside of my capacity for understanding). |
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Hey, that's a catchy title you've got there, [MikeD], even though it does sound a trifle familiar... |
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// "the line of reasoning used by women". (outside of my capacity for understanding) // |
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No shame in that - beyond any intelligent, reasoning entity's understanding. Even God struggles with THAT one. |
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Sorry, [Mike] I think David Attenborough did that. |
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I saw it on BBC2, just after a crime documentary
about a sex offender who trapped a sea-eagle during
its autumnal migration, cut off its beak, and used it
for some bizarre form of sexual gratification. It was
called "Heavy petter and the fall osprey's tongue." |
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Well, of course I can't *really* compete in this silliness, [MB]. I'm not Brittish. |
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... and therefore more deserving of Pity than Condemnation ... |
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For the Americans: "Hey Reporter, ya fillout the 401k form?" |
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What was that tumbleweed symbol again ... ? |
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...... @ ........ @ ......... @ ......... |
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<sound of bell in abandoned adobe church ringing softly in the wind> |
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Didn't he also do a piece on a young Bangledeshian boy traveling north and settling along the banks of the river Parnu? |
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Yes, it was... "Haripur, the source of Estonia"! |
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You're all up the Kwai without a paddle. |
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Sorry. I'm stoned. It made sense at the time. |
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How about a drama set in a salon "The Hair Reporter
and Philippa's Comb". |
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I'd like to see "Arry Potta and that Phil off
Eastenders". |
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Or, a rural idyll set in the days of horse and human power farming, and subsistence harvest time: “The reaper turns, and they fill up our stores” |
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Some of you don't seem to be taking this idea seriously ... |
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Stand aside please 8th...
Or, the tale of the mental collapse of an unwary customer overwhelmed by a plethora of delicious pastry bargains in a bakery shop. Harried Shopper and the Filo Offers Zone. |
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You're Double posting [DrBob] |
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You're Double posting [DrBob] |
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Perhaps we should have advocated a crossover between J K Rowling and Alan Sillitioe, about a young boy employed as an unsupervised postal sorter of letters written in traditional script on a long haul Scandinavian railway network, and his sense of isolation and friendlessness which arises from his work, called "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runer" |
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