I have read a lot of people complain about Jonhy bits, but in reality I believe that reading all of it really shows that house of leaves is not about an infinite labyrinth, but rather about lack of self control, loneliness, broken people and relationships, and, most of all, darkness
Most people who complain about the the Johnny Truant bits never finished the book. I genuinely hated him at the start, but by the end, I just wanted to give him a hug.
yeah i mean this is what it is, i think it would be a hard task to try and capture the essence of this book given its constant switching of narrative, genre and view points, and especially with the resources this guy had to work with but i urge anyone who hasn't read the book already to do so. House of Leaves definitely inspires creativity
Too hard to effectively recreate how insanity just kind of...lurks through out the novel. It's more of a feeling that creeps in slowly and the way the novel is composed it's easy to get lulled into that twisted mind state. That's the beauty of the novel. Also, the actual story of the Navidson record is suss based on how quickly both narrators descend into madness, or how fucked up they already were prior and just didnt know
@@sithari518 this is definitely a big part of it. house of leaves is a labyrinth of stories within stories, and the way it blends into itself to lose you is best done through text.¹ ¹i can definitely see someone with the right resources being able to make something of a recreation of just the film though, kind of as supplementary material to the book the way poes haunted is.
It stays at just creepy. Thing is, creepy isn't necessarily light. It goes to the point where YOU become paranoid of things happening around you in your room while reading it.
he says in the book that you can skip his parts if they're boring. a lot of his texts are rambly and boring, but for me they work as a pallet cleanser before getting into intense, paranormal and scary parts of the book
I enjoyed tracking Johnny’s spiral into insanity as the book progressed; it’s this sharp contrast between the academic, neutral style of The Navidson Record and the fearful, urban style with which Johnny writes.
Better than I expected. Only seen the first part so far, but you can appreciate the hard work that went into this. Sure, it's not cinema-grade, but for something of its type, it's well produced.
Very well done. All that's missing are Chad and Daisy. I love how you are sticking to the Navidson Record and not going off on a tangent with Johnny's story. True, it needs Johnny's story to be the record, but Johnny's story belongs in its own setting, not overlapping the Navidsons.
It would work as a movie, but not as a whole. Somebody trying to adapt solely the Navidson Record with enough cash to create feasible effects for the House could do a pretty decent job. But a movie that attempted to include Johnny and Zampano wouldn't work as well. You can't adapt any of the stories individually, but you can create The Navidson Record precisely as described in the novel.
You have to read both, and reading the referenced books in the references to make the book more sense, Ovid, Dante’s Inferno, Milton, Anead. This book connects them all and The house is the mind 😇
I can’t get past how young the actors are or the fact that they house appears completely lived in, not like they just moved in. Don’t think I can watch it all. Its my fav book though ❤
I'm in the process of reading it. He burns the pages as he explores the house. Thing is, the book is not the book. It's a book that for some reason has the same name as the book but no relation at all to the actual book.
Iirc Danielewski had written a tv pilot where it was revealed that the book House of Leaves was actually based on a true story adding yet another meta lair to it but nothing more than that was made for it
Certainly needs a budget, but I suppose you did fine for having no money. I'd not want a movie, but I want a mini-series at least. It would have to be carefully crafted, but I think Johnny is as important as Navy.
just started reading house of leaves book came out three years before i was born and this video came out just before i left pre school. idk feels like im destined to read it. idly looked up the navidson record just in case the book was real and here this video is. may be fan made but im gonna pretend its real, and that the house is real, and that im gonna go insane in a month or so
Have been reading it for 3 days now and already going insane. At least because the movie that didn't exist actually exists!!! The Internet adds another layer of post-meta-modernism to all this
@oniasuka well in the case of the navidson record its almost good to have little budget, like zampano wrote one of the elements of the movie that made it the way it is was the lack of things such as production crews and special equipment
@dmnhntr32 True that. The Shining (all though made long before HOL even was published, displays the idea of mazes and what not, along with the separation of a family
I don't know. Eyes Wide Shut didn't do much for me. It's been 20 years since seeing Clockwork. I just see problems happening with trying to see reality through three different characters' eyes at once on film. These aren't Kubrick, but I still like how Fight Club worked as a movie (flexible source material though) and High Tension worked until the climax then fell apart.
Just wondering, why was the guy sitting there reading a copy of the book in which this fictional film documented and researched on by a blind man is prominently featured? TL;DR- What's with the guy reading House of Leaves?
also, didn't we discover that the house was larger, initially, through the closet? "deeliel" is not the way it's pronounced either, and where are the children!?!?!
Honestly... this was an okay attempt but it just didn't capture the book at all. I'm going to check out the other ones and see how it went, but it really felt forced in a few places. Karen's "One day I'll go bald" line was pretty poorly delivered. It just all felt like you were acting.
good idea, but the people in it look nothing like the descriptions of the characters. also in order to create the navidson record you would need great photography skills in order to match everything that was put into it in the book, maybe you could do better just with exploration #4 because navidson was not there
Yeah, everybody in this is too young to be believable. Dude looks like he's 18, tops - what's he talking about, raising a family?? It's been a while since I read the book but wasn't Navidson a professional photographer? I thought some of this was supposed to have been shot on film, or at least hi-def, which even in the 90s would have been better quality than this. Still it's a nice effort.
I really think it's just a clever self-plug. Not everything in the book is symbolic of something. Danielewski put his name spelled out using the first letter of every word on one of the page. It doesn't mean anything other than he wanted the people who found it to say "well, that's clever."
...go cry about it. It does well for what it is. Not everyone can afford what Navidson had in his house. The 'angles' and stuff...I really don't think you can do that with a handheld camera. This is good for what it is.
