Movie musings, a what-if game

[caramida]

rmjwell posted a brilliant idea on his journal, about what if X person had written Y book? For example, what if Miss Manners' Guide to Excrutiatingly Correct Behavior were written by Dorothy Parker? or what if The Handmaid's Tale had been written by Harlan Ellison?

Much madness ensued. It got me to thinking, what about movies? What if had Y directed Z? For starters, I'll provide a few, but I really want y'all to chime in with your own twisted ideas:

A Clockwork Orange, as directed by Rob Reiner
Cocoon, as directed by Clive Barker
My Dinner With Andre, as directed by Kevin Smith
Fiddler on the Roof, as directed by Mel Gibson
Schindler's List, as directed by Mel Brooks
V for Vendetta, as directed by Ron Howard
Amelie, as directed by the Wachowski Brothers

Ok, I've done enough damage. Now it's your turn.

(p.s. finally, a post worthy of the Dr. Tran icon!)

Comments

[caramida.livejournal.com]

Bonus: Dr. Tran Has a Chat With A Mormon Child, as directed by Richard Donner.

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

I really wanted to see The Da Vinci Code as written by Charlie Kaufman, but I'm sure he'd have done a great job as director, too. And if I may be both outre (because I'm the only person I know who didn't love it) and inappropriate (because anything involving John Waters is inapproriate), Bokeback Mountain would have been much better if John Waters had gotten his filthy hands on it.

Hm, what else? Citizen Kane as directed by Stanley Kubrick, maybe? Although it's already pretty freaking weird.

[name-redacted.livejournal.com]

Oh, gods, it hurts my head...

The Star Wars movies, as a Merchant Ivory production.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as directed by David Lynch. (I got your dancing dwarves right here...)
Charlotte's Web, as directed by Christopher Nolan.
Dune, as directed by the Farrelley Brothers
Click, as directed by Frank Capra (oh, wait a minute)

[caramida.livejournal.com]

You sir, are a sick, sick man. I'm proud to call you friend.

[name-redacted.livejournal.com]

Let's not forget:

John Carpenter's Little Shop of Horrors ("Feed me, MacReady!"), and National Lampoon's Apocalypse Now...

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

Driving Miss Daisy, as directed by Tim Burton

Brokeback Mountain, as directed by Stephen Seagal

Howard's End, directed by Harold Ramis

American Pie II, as directed by Orson Welles

The Golan-Globus production of Doctor Zhivago

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

oh, and one more:

Shakespeare in Love, as directed by Irwin Allen

[caramida.livejournal.com]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, directed by Ed Wood

Episode I: the Phantom Menace, directed by anybody.

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

Phantom Menace? Welcome to the Kobayashi-Maru of directing...

Good Night, and Good Luck, as directed by Brian De Palma

Babe, as directed by David Cronenberg

[name-redacted.livejournal.com]

"We will serve no pie, before its time."

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

(said while dying) "Band camp..."

[darkcryst.livejournal.com]

Hmm well...

Memoirs of a Geisha, by Paul Verhoven
Mallrats, by Orson Wells
Harry Potter (any), by Woody Allen
Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan, by Guillimo Del Toro
Scarface, a Merchant Ivory production.
Toy Story, by Tim Burton
Evil Dead II, by the Wachowski Brothers

and finally...

Debbie Does Dallas, by Ron Howard

[caramida.livejournal.com]

*cackles*

Brilliant!

X to Y

[mr-pandakun.livejournal.com]

Here's a few odd ducks or should-haves (you pick):

V for Vandetta - as directed by Martin Scorsese. I dunno, it just seems *right*.
The Tuxedo - as directed by Wes Anderson. It was a silly concept, and after seeing The Life Aquatic, maybe something more could have been put into it.
Clue - as directed by John Carpenter. It'd have a lot more guns, I'm sure ("they're comin' out of the walls! They're comin' out of the goddamn walls!")
Marie Antoinette - as directed by Akira Kirosawa. In the same vein of Throne of Blood perhaps? Maybe that's not historically fair...
Richard III - as directed by Sofia Coppola. I don't know what to say about that.
Grease - as directed by Spike Lee. Probably the only re-make I'd pay full admission to see.
The Last Samurai - as directed by Clint Eastwood, mostly because he never would have picked Tom Cruise.