The Kitchen Boy The Movie

[JulesReverie]

Wouldn't The Kitchen Boy make a great "what if" Romonov movie? I loved that book, it had the best endings and is one of the only books that isn't about Anastayia(she's annoying to me)and I also love the book because it pays more attention to my two favorite family members Maria and Alexei

[moonlight_tsarina]

If you've looked around the other threads, I said the say thing! It would be [glb]sooo awesome[/glb]...that book was just magnifincent to me....And a very emotional read to.
People who didn't even read the book would probly like it if it was a movie.

[JulesReverie]

OMG I love your sig! I used to be a huge Sailor Moon fan(Darien is so hot) where did the pics come from? Are they from the live action show?

Well back to subject, I love that book(even though they ****** my favorite Romanov, that was so sad) but the ending was so good and believable and paid justice to the most angelic Romanov who usually gets ignored by thee Anastayia(I'm sorry but I can't stand her, everythings always about her, enough with Anya)but yeah I was so happy there was finally a book focusing on all family members and the possible escape of one other than Anya. It would make a great and unpredictable movie amongst the remakes of today(what there's like five remakes coming out this year)

It would be hard to cast the Kitchen boy though due to the twist ending and all(someone like Nick Stal would probably work since he can look likes a boy but yet a man with his big blues and baby face)

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But it would be cool(but impossibel due to age) if the same person who plays Maria plays the grandaughter as well

[moonlight_tsarina]

Thank you so much for your interest in my banner!!
I made it myslef with handy mr. photoshop.....well, actually i wish the serenity character was me, but no.
lol. that is usagi Kou from usagikou.com
As well as her bf Mamoru...she just cosplays with him.
The live show is pretty lame sorta and has a cast of only japanese people.
And I loooove Sailor moon, titanic, and the romanovs..as you can tell...
But back to the kitchen boy...
you know that would be pretty awesome for the maria character to play Katya! As i write this The kitchen boy is sitting on my desk...i am re-reading it for like, the 5th time!
It's so engrossing...
[glb]Annie[/glb]

[JulesReverie]

I used to love Sailor Moon so much(watch it after school, buy the comics, go to SOS) it brings back so much memories. I went to that website(that Mamoru is gorgeous, she's so lucky to have a boyfriend who's gorgeous and supports her fandom...I'm jealous now lol) wow those people are talented and put alot of time in effort into their love of Sailor Moon(and I thought I was the biggest fan) well all the luck to them and what their doing(they look like they're having fun with it, who doesn't have fun with dressing up)

I got the book in the mail a week ago and so far I've read it like two time(first I skimed through it, second time I reread my favorite parts) I rereading it for the third time, this time not skimming(it's fun to reread books, you always catch things you missed the frist time through and you learn more each time) and casting the characters and imagining it as a movie(I'm the kind of person who alway has overdue Library fines lol)

If they were going to have the same actress who played Maria play Katya they would have to change the ages a little(not all actresses can play a nineteen year old as well as a thirty five year old, the only one I could think of who's done that is that actress from means girls who played an eighteen year old when she was twentyeight) and it would have to be in the style of Big Fish, (not set style) where the audience knows it's a story that could or could not be true and are shown the truth at the end in changed flashbacks(I know that probably sounds confusing) and the movie should be done like the classic movie Amadeus(the book reminded me of that movie, old guilt ridden suicidal man tells his story of a privilaged famous person he knew and helped destroy)

I have no idea on how this would be casted if it was made

[Vive_HIH_Aleksey]

Drew Barrymore's character in Scream was 17, and in real life she was 20-something.

[JulesReverie]

and she also played a fifteen yearold In Riding in Cars With Boys when she was twentyseven, so i guess it can happen

[helenazar]

I am not so sure that Kitchen Boy would work as a movie because of the nature of how the story unfolds. We are supposed to think that the kitchen was really the kitchen boy, but then it turns out it wasn't, and that was kind of the whole point of the book. It would be difficult to do that in a movie, prevent the viewer from knowing who the main character really was, although maybe they can think of something...

[JulesReverie]

I am not so sure that Kitchen Boy would work as a movie because of the nature of how the story unfolds. We are supposed to think that the kitchen was really the kitchen boy, but then it turns out it wasn't, and that was kind of the whole point of the book. It would be difficult to do that in a movie, prevent the viewer from knowing who the main character really was, although maybe they can think of something...

It actually was done before(almost) in Big Fish. Show the big flashback of Misc's tape recordings and then after Kayla's dicovery another flashback of what really happened

[moonlight_tsarina]

Well, i think its possible to happen. there have been a ton of susprise ending movies you wouldnt have gussed, like the village or the others...
but i still wouldnt be satisfied porbly because there would be this and that to nit pik about!  
you all know how much they change movies!
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[JulesReverie]

Yeah they'll probably do some stupid change like having the kitchen boy and Maria having a forbidden love affair or something else that will ruin the whole story and it's meaning(it's been done before in Tuck Everlasting and etc) The only great book adaptations that I could think of at the monent that were at least 80% true to the book are The Color Purple, Ordinary People, Lord of the Rings, Empire of the Sun, To Kill a Mokingbird, Holes(I know there's more)

[moonlight_tsarina]

Yeah they'll probably do some stupid change like having the kitchen boy and Maria having a forbidden love affair or something else that will ruin the whole story and it's meaning(it's been done before in Tuck Everlasting and etc) The only great book adaptations that I could think of at the monent that were at least 80% true to the book are The Color Purple, Ordinary People, Lord of the Rings, Empire of the Sun, To Kill a Mokingbird, Holes(I know there's more)

Yes, i agree. Born Free by Joy Adamson was a very good movie too; it went along with the book's story great.

[bernard_timbal]

Well, I' am agree with you. I don't know if "kitchen boy" would made a good film but the tragic end of Romanov could make itself a great and dramatic movie.

I am awaiting the time a realisator will be interest by this subjects !

[moonlight_tsarina]

Well, I' am agree with you. I don't know if "kitchen boy" would made a good film but the tragic end of Romanov could make itself a great and dramatic movie.

I am awaiting the time a realisator will be interest by this subjects !

Yeah, so am i!
lol
An indie film company would most likely be a company to produce this film though! So it wouldn't be widley known.

[JulesReverie]

The Kitchen Boy sounds like a movie that would be featured in KQED's Masterpeice Theater or A&E

You know what the Kitchen Boy reminds me of, The Scarlet Pimpernel(which was made into a billion of movies and is now a musical, but most of you know that) I don't know, it's the whole plot of revolution and execution of royals and a possible escape of one. The same sort of things happened in SP, if you don't know, the SP was the master of disguises in which he used to save royals and aristrocrats from being beheaded and in the end he successfully saved king Louie and queen Marie's son, who in real life was very sickely and mysteriously dissapeared and assumed dead like Alexei, and lead him to safety in Austria, it's fictional BTW but it's in the same genre of The Kitchen Boy(the "what if" genre)