Are his works unadaptable for tv/film? reddit told me was racist and overrated

are his works unadaptable for tv/film? reddit told me was racist and overrated

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well, a broken clock...

I find it weird how reddit changed its name to 4channel

>he wants someone who got renowned for writing horror to be socially and mentally well adjusted
Disliking niggers is the least, he was fucked up trough and trough. And that's what makes him so good at horror.

Another fucked up writer was Philip K Dick. There are things people on the right side of the tracks are just unable to understand.

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It's impossible to convey the kind of existensial dread he was going for in a movie, for many reasons. Him being a racist and outplayed in pop culture (which I assume people mean by overrated) has nothing to do with it. However, he was doubtlessly overtly racist.

Very much adaptable. I should say that he's more famous in the west than in other places, and most likely West finds him too PROBLEMATIC for direct adaptations. That being said, his influence is all over the place.

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Yeah, I call bullshit on the idea that the western world considers him too problematic to adapt. There's tons of Lovecraft video games. All from western developers.

>"It is worth pausing to ponder the sources for Lovecraft's attraction to Sonia. It seems facile to say that he was looking for a mother replacement; and yet, the emergence of Sonia into his life a mere six weeks after his mother's death is certainly a coincidence worth noting.

>"His continued enthusiasm the next day was so genuine and sincere that in appreciation I surprised and shocked him right then and there by kissing him. He was so flustered that he blushed, then he turned pale. When I chaffed him about it he said he had not been kissed since he was a very small child and that he was never kissed by any woman [...] and that he would probably never be kissed again. (But I fooled him)."

>"We learn [...] that: first, he was a virgin at the time he married; second, prior to his marriage he had read several books on sex; and third, he never initiated sexual relations, but would respond when Sonia did so. [...] Sonia herself has only two comments on the matter. 'As a married man he was an adequately excellent lover, but refused to show his feelings in the presence of others. [...] One way of expression of H.P.'s sentiment was to wrap his "pinkey" finger around mine and say "Umph!""

>"Sonia seems to have understood Lovecraft very well, his frigidity, his inhibition, his denial and his disgust for life. As for him, who considered himself an old man at thirty, one is still surprised that he could envisage union with this dynamic, vivacious creature. A divorced jewess, what’s more; which, for a conservative anti semite like him would seem to constitute an insurmountable obstacle. [...] But it is perhaps the most unlikely explanation that seems the best: Lovecraft really seems to have, in a certain manner, loved Sonia, as Sonia loved him."

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tons of direct adaptations of his work? Hardly so. As i've said, his influence is all over the place, but you can count direct Lovecraft adaptations with fingers on one of your hands.

literally /ourguy/ just wanted some khazar mommy milkers

>mfw no sexually straightforward jewess to save me from the denial and disgust for life

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>One way of expression of H.P.'s sentiment was to wrap his "pinkey" finger around mine and say "Umph!""

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there's a bunch of yuzna/gordon movies

snowball
checked

From Beyond and Reanimator are cool though? Dagon isn't bad either

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>antisemitic mommyfu virgin who secretly dreams of a jewess mommy gf
Haha can you imagine relating to this creep

The HP Lovecraft Historical Society has made 3 and 1 mockumentary.
The Call of Cthulhu
The Whisperer in the Darkness
The Testimony of Randolf Carter
A Shoggoth on the Roof

heh

And this

I don't think he knew she was a jew when he met her, probably any older and rich woman interested in him would do

No, it wouldn't even be the most surreal shit filmed. It would be very very easy but you'd always have autists nitpicking the designs. Most of the stories barely even "show" the unfathomable stuff and there's usually some minor monster that could be adapted as easily as anything else. Mountains of madness would be perfect cfor cinema, but Shadow over Innsmouth could make a good thriller mystery. Dunwich Horror could be horror kino.

He’s a meme at this point. Just stop talking about him

What are you gonna do about it?

>"antisemitic"
>has no problem with a Jewish person who treats him nicely
Woah.... it's almost like it was the people he hated who were the problem... and they just all consistently happened to be Jewish...

Impossible to have a conversation about the man without someone bringing up the racist shit. So at least you opened with it and derailed it immediately.

Racism wasn't really a theme in the stories, just kind of like unnecessary like tarentino forcing in his fetishes. There's absolutely no reason it can't be adapted.

The problem is that giant fish gods is retarded. The subtleties of the insanity and setting of dreadfulness and a decent into insanity is brilliant.