If your work gets a movie adaptation.........

If your work gets a movie adaptation then which lines do you expect/imagine to be the Hammiest?

I'm not sure how this topic is gonna go but whatever lol

edited 22nd Dec '10 6:50:01 AM by PsychoFreaX

"Earth Dogs Die Hard!"

My Lawful Evil Paladin trying to stay perfectly stoic would definitely come across as hammy...

In one of my more recent stories, Victor "Black Mark" Marcos and Gerald "Headcase" Caset are, respectively, a compulsively lying conman and a nerdy, nervous hacker. I can't imagine them as being played anythign but extremely over the top.

Probably my airship pirate Big Bad...she's a psychotic lesbian from a tribal society, festooned with weapons and scalps who likes booze and fighting. She talks with a serious pirate accent and is even missing an eye (though it's filled with an orb of snowflake obsidian instead of covered with a patch).

The narm would begin when she takes her first ship..."When you meet your gods, you can say 'twas Black Beckah done sent you to 'em."

Note: I based her off Captain Edward Teach, one of the most feared pirates in the Americas in his day...he's better known to history as Blackbeard.

If any of my work gets a movie or series adaptation, i'd be less concerned about what dialogue is hammy, compared to "what gets censored"

See, any potentially hammy dialogue is the BIG SPEECHES, you know, the "you shall not pass", "we shall fight them on the beaches" sort of thing. For the scifi series, the hammiest would be the admiral's speech about 'defending the republic from its enemies' as it descends into a civil war, and the commodore's 'surrender or die, for there will be no quarter' speech

for the fantasy series, there's really only the 'proclamation of a new era, a tumultuous uncertain time' speech, and the 'we will stand and fight, and the river will run red with their blood' speech (appropriate, since the river is the contested border). other than that, the responses to 'accidents' that learning magic entails 'yes, you're getting quite good at bending sand to your will. Bad move to do it in a sandstone building', 'you really shouldn't melt into the walls like that'

hammy dialogue can be convincingly delivered by the right person, anyway

THE PUPPETS ARE COMING! THE PUPPETS ARE COMING! THE PUPPETS ARE COMING! ...God help us all...

If my book gets a movie adaptation, Kathryn Bigelow is working the camera. That will be a rider on the contract. If she's not available, I'll wait. If she's not interested, I'm not interested. End of discussion.

"I WON'T DIE HERE! I CAN'T DIE HERE!"

Yeah, they would obviously ham that scene up. Look at the character list on my Troper page. Seriously.

Just about every single thing the Herald in LHP/forgotten Lore (yes, it finally has a real name) says can (and should) be done in an extremely over the top way. Especially every time he says something along the lines of "I serve being with powers beyond your comprehension! No force on this world, or beyond, can stand before their power!".

Almost everything. I'd almost expect it considering how Hot-Blooded, Hammy, or Boisterous my characters get at times.

I suppose that there may be an obligation to defend that which sucks from being removed from our storytelling.

Pretty much everything that Carina Devincenzi does in the Mythology 101 Cycle will probably be done hammily in the corresponding film series, but her Hannibal Lecture to Kylie seems to me to be the most obvious source of Incoming Ham (and, if done poorly, Narm):

"You belong with us, Huntress. You hunger for blood, and thirst for destruction. I can see it in your eyes. I can taste it on your flesh. Your soul burns to kill, and never stop killing. I can promise you absolute freedom. No restraint, no judgment. Alira offers you bondage… I offer you carnage."

At the end of the fourth book, Kylie gets hammy during her speech to the remaining forces of good about how she's going to utterly exterminate the vampires and werewolves. Yes, the fifth book is about genocide, and it's performed by the good guys. It's that kind of story.

Allison would have to be the hammiest teenaged girl to ever exist if they expect to get her right. Todd would have to be too, but he'd have to be able to switch from Affably Evil to deadly serious at the drop of a pin.

Oh, and Tre too, especially these bits in Wheel right here:

"Mean? MEAN? I'm practically the nicest dude you'll ever meet compared to YOU! You hurt me, you took my girlfriend, you tried to off me multiple times, you tore my friends and I apart, you got rid of Cow by getting into the seedy underbelly of Greyson's crime syndicate, you blew the Pert Building apart, you nearly broke my leg and you're calling ME mean?"

And this. (The speech just above it is Lily Rockwell attempting to give a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Tre... and failing at it)

"Through? With ME? You don't know how good you've got it, you little twit! You're just a delinquent who decided to take a stand against the police! Is that going to make it into the history books? Are YOU going to make it in at all? No! You think you're such a great old boy who gets all the girls and has all the popularity to come out of this sinkhole ever, but really all your precious little life is is a giant piece of s—"

Out of nowhere I threw my blue slushie onto her shirt before she could finish.

"For the love of Pete," I started, then me and the rest of the cafeteria yelled, "SHUT UP!"

Being the average evil embarrassed girl, she screamed loud enough for the entire cafeteria to hear. "That was for what happened last year." I added. Taking a slop of mashed potatoes from my tray, I threw it onto her head. "That's just because I don't like you."

She ran off screaming, and then after a bit of an awkward silence, the entire cafeteria gave me a standing ovation, for the beauty that was also the beast had finally fallen, and revenge was sweet indeed.

edited 23rd Dec '10 6:24:35 PM by Tre