"What would a War and Peace sequel look like?" Topic

"The television version of War and Peace, transfixing its BBC audience, comes as an apt reminder that a great story can be like a love affair: an infinite labyrinth of excitement, sorrow and desire.

Tales of love and death aside, what else matters to mankind's stone-age brain? Set human passions against a backdrop of war and invasion, like solitary figures standing in front of a city in flames, and you have box-office gold. As audiences, our consciousness remains hard-wired with some very primitive storylines.

Tolstoy understood this when, having worked for years on the manuscript he called "1805", he dramatically retitled it War and Peace. With a single phrase, he met the lasting challenge of any literature: achieving a happy marriage between high art and the low drives of a simple plot. Besides, he always wanted to appeal to a wide audience: "To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but most people can't eat it."…"
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It is my understanding Tolstoy had a sequel, or planned one about the children Of Pierre and Prince Andre

War and Peace 2: The Revenge of Bonaparte

War and Peace 2: Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Russia . . .

War and Peace 2: This time it's serious.

War and Peace 2: The Musical

It is my understanding Tolstoy had a sequel, or planned one about the children Of Pierre and Prince Andre

Pierre and Prince Andre had children together?

is it going to be War and Peace and Zombies?

I don't see "Peace and Peace" as the BBC's next hit.

If you want "human passions against a background or war and invasion" given "Gone with the Wind" is already filmed, I'd say the best bet would be a Punic Wars mini-series--all the aristocracy and bloodshed one could ask for. The long form does three or four generations and ends with the destruction of Carthage to go with "Trojan Women" and "Masada." The short form is "just" the 2nd Punic, but you get to kill off characters at "Game of Thrones" rates.

The children would dream of a better Russia; free of autocratic rule. Then they would be shot as Decembrists. Its not original. Its just the sad history of Russia. They remade it as a current time film. I think a guy named Putin is the writer/director. H

Think of the quiet, peaceful period of 1844 Europe….

Woody Allen's "Love and Death" was a rather amusing parody of "War and Peace." Not a sequel, but still entertaining.

Perhaps time to play the Great Game or a little tussle with the Turks ending up in the Crimea?

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