I'd like to put my two cents worth in here and say it's much easier (for me at least) to read in email format as opposed to a private message here. Thanks!

Ok - I feel like an idiot, but I really don't understand what you're asking of us...

Take a new film and make it olde-timey?

Exactly .

Bleah.

Ok.

Well, I think I know what movie I'd convert, though I'll probably get dinged on being "obvious" or "not really challenging convention of the time" or something to that extent.

It's a little frustrating and de-motivating that attendance is so low.

I agree. I don't know what to do about it, though.

Thanks a lot to the judges for their appreciation for Little Lily. Glad you liked it. It'll be a great boost for moving forward in the competition.

And yes... I agree, even when I was writing down it I felt it'd be better to give some background about Lugosi's character-Marcel as well as to add some details about his magic. But the thing is I'm not good with or know a good deal about 'magic' stuffs or more precisely, thought it'd make the story lengthier as I wanted to go into the main events as quickly as possible; after all it's only an outline for a screenplay to give about the basic idea which can be improvised further in the next phase...writing down the 'screenplay' with necessary details that was missing in the outline.

Btw, I wasn't aware about Lugosi's portrayal of Chandu the Magician as I haven't seen any film on this character. It just came to my mind that he could be good in a role of magician.

Anyway, thanks again and best of luck to the Goblins...wish I could have their new challenge. Looking forward to see some interesting entries from the contestants. :)

Are we supposed to choose a director and cast of today or the 40's?

Also i'm not sure if im even going to be able to do this as i've had some serious writer's block lately. If i do, it probably will be pretty short. Just a heads up.

More clarifying questions:

Should we pretend that it's 1940 right now and simply adapt a 2000's film? Does that mean that we could change items of the film to adapt to the 1940s era?

Should we assume that the audience is the audience of the 1940s?

When you say:

Please clarify this statement - I'm sort of mind-boggled by this...

I assume that you mean that it would wrong to use 2010's The Wolfman, but please help me understand...


Also, with this:

Are we assuming that the Production Company has to be Universal?

Amanda, you are overthinking...

True - This is the reason why I don't do so hot on standardized tests (my poor score on the GMAT is rather fresh in mind... though I just found out that I DID kickass on the writing portion, which was a nice boon...).

You know my chronic fear of failure - I'm not happy that my scores haven't broken into an A so I don't want to lose points for misunderstanding the challenge.