The Machine Stops: Coming Soon!
If I were to turn any story from our class so far into a movie, I would have to pick The Machine Stops , by E. M. Forster. There have been a few short film or skit adaptations of this movie, and even a play, but I would love to reimagine it as a feature-length film. The reason I think that this story would make such a compelling movie is because of its distinct and unusual setting, and also because I love post-apocalyptic, science-fiction-ish parables such as this one. Science fiction narratives allow for a wider sort of world-building than those that are set in the present day or with our present technological restraints, and it would be fun to explore all of the proprietary technology and environments in The Machine Stops. One of the greatest considerations that would have to be made in this movie is how to translate the idea of the podlike rooms that Vashti and the rest of the human race occupy to a concrete form. The rooms are said to be "hexagonal in shape, like the cell of ...