Oh Hell Yeah Transpeirceneige
Jul. 6th, 2013 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearerWhich is to be a film coming out this summer. I read and went 'oh, post-apocalyptic fiction! I love those' and promptly downloaded the BD to read them in French so I could get the details.
The most apt description of what the hell I read would be 'Imagine if The Road was set on a train and it was snowing'. But I'd add a dash of Children of Men as well for the socio-political aspects. Like The Road, it's not exactly what you'd call upbeat. It's also got a habit of killing characters of faster than GRRM (which isn't actually saying much as they can't actually stay dead in his books), three books later they've killed of two entire trains. Which may or may not be the entire human race.
Anyway, I'm really jazzed for this film, firstly because it looks from the trailer as though they've done everything right they needed to do right: the spirit of Le Transpeirceneige is of human conflict boiling over in a claustrophobic, vulnerable space which if damaged could spell doom for both sides. Things like characters are kinda pointless and most of them die within a few pages and were pretty forgettable anyway. The main characters are the train (which looks good), the world (which looks good) and the mass of seething general humanity tearing itself apart (which looks GREAT!)
It doesn't appear to be based on any of the particular stories, but Le Transpeirceneige is a series where making your own story in your own train it completely cool (as I said, they tend to drop dead on a regular basis so it's pretty necessary), the spirit of the stories seems to be respected, and after that you can interpret it however you want: People packed on a train which is the last bastion of life in an ice-choked world.
So yeah, Children of Men, set in The Road (with snow) on a train.
The most apt description of what the hell I read would be 'Imagine if The Road was set on a train and it was snowing'. But I'd add a dash of Children of Men as well for the socio-political aspects. Like The Road, it's not exactly what you'd call upbeat. It's also got a habit of killing characters of faster than GRRM (which isn't actually saying much as they can't actually stay dead in his books), three books later they've killed of two entire trains. Which may or may not be the entire human race.
Anyway, I'm really jazzed for this film, firstly because it looks from the trailer as though they've done everything right they needed to do right: the spirit of Le Transpeirceneige is of human conflict boiling over in a claustrophobic, vulnerable space which if damaged could spell doom for both sides. Things like characters are kinda pointless and most of them die within a few pages and were pretty forgettable anyway. The main characters are the train (which looks good), the world (which looks good) and the mass of seething general humanity tearing itself apart (which looks GREAT!)
It doesn't appear to be based on any of the particular stories, but Le Transpeirceneige is a series where making your own story in your own train it completely cool (as I said, they tend to drop dead on a regular basis so it's pretty necessary), the spirit of the stories seems to be respected, and after that you can interpret it however you want: People packed on a train which is the last bastion of life in an ice-choked world.
So yeah, Children of Men, set in The Road (with snow) on a train.