Lighten up with Ludlum

[PennLady]

Over at Slate, they had a contest for people to come up with Robert Ludlum-esque titles, either for existing works or just made up for fun.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...s_from_slate_readers_and_salman_rushdie_.html

All of Ludlum's novels have titles like "The Aquitaine Progression," "The Bourne Identity," etc. -- The + proper noun + abstract noun. Some of the ones in the article I link to are pretty funny, and apparently even people like Christopher Hitchens and Salmon Rushdie had some fun with it.

Surely people here must have some ideas, so let's see them.

The Wizard of Oz -- The Kansas Hallucination (not great, I know; I never said I was good at this).

 

[Cruel2BKind]

One of the comments said just what I was thinking.

Big Bang Theory episodes.

 

[Verdad]

Faust = The Mephistopheles Bargain

Crime and Punishment = The Raskolnikov Dilemma

Buddenbrooks = The Hanse Comedown

The 120 Days of Sodom = The Savoy Buggery

Animal Farm = The Stalin Beastliness

 

[mynameisben]

Gone With the Wind = The Tara Dismissal
Star Wars (1st trilogy) = The Skywalker Development
Star Wars (2nd trilogy) = The Lucas Deception
Moby Dick = The Ishmael Calling

 

[R. Richard]

The Monster That Devoured Cleveland: The Monster Denouement.

 

[Verdad]

2001: A Space Odyssey = The Zarathustra Takeoff

Alien = The Ripley Evasion

Trainspotting = The Edinburgh Withdrawal

 

[PennLady]

Dune = The Atreides Betrayal

The Crow = The Draven Retaliation

 

[Verdad]

I Am Legend = The Malthus Conjecture

Johh Carter = The Barsoom Debacle

 

[DaddyValin]

Stranger in a Strange Land = The Valentine Relocation

 

[jomar]

Nice folks! Feels like a welcome blast from the past.

Lee Child - The Reacher Mistake

Harry Potter - The Hogwarts Engagement

 

[PennLady]

Romeo & Juliet = The Verona Subterfuge

(had to go to a thesaurus for help on that one)

 

[Verdad]

Lit categories as per Ludlum:

Anal = The Greek Admission

BDSM = The Reage Redux

Celebrities = The Palin Comeuppance

Chain Stories = The Prometheus Association

Erotic Couplings = The Sinatra Fluke

Erotic Horror = The Kruger Encounter

Exhibitionist & Voyeur = The Tom Peeping

Fetish = The Marx Valuation

First Time = The Hymen Adoration

Gay Male = The Brokeback Action

Group Sex = The Eleusis Entanglement

How To = The Carnegie Phenomenon

Humor & Satire = The Juvenal Impulse

Illustrated = The Crepax Support

Incest/Taboo = The Oedipus Solution

Interracial Love = The Klum Arrangement

Lesbian Sex = The Lesbos Vacation

Letters & Transcripts = The Abelard Communication

Loving Wives = The Guinevere Offence

Mature = The Hefner Delusion

Mind Control = The Mesmer Effect

Non-English = The Babel Conundrum

Non-Erotic = The Sisyphus Attempt

NonConsent/Reluctance = The Sabine Felony

NonHuman = The Chewbacca Dalliance

Novels and Novellas = The Dickens Overload

Reviews & Essays = The Ebert Presumption

Romance = The O’Hara Syndrome

Sci-Fi & Fantasy = The Shannara Swordsmanship

Text With Audio = The Oscar Performance

Toys & Masturbation = The Onan Enterprise

Transsexuals & Crossdressers = The Sylvester Accessory

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

That is an astounding list, Verdad. Truly. I don't even think I can pick a favorite.




OK I lied. I'll go with a tie between The Ebert Presumption and The Marx Valuation, but really, they are all great. Thanks for posting.

 

[PennLady]

Fantastic list, Verdad. The rest of us will vie for a distant second...

Oh, had an idea.

Reviews & Essays -- The Hitchens Declaration

Not near as good as yours, and I'm a big Roger Ebert fan.

 

[Verdad]

That is an astounding list, Verdad. Truly. I don't even think I can pick a favorite.




OK I lied. I'll go with a tie between The Ebert Presumption and The Marx Valuation, but really, they are all great. Thanks for posting.

Thanks. Hopefully I've got the juvenal impulse under control now.

Fantastic list, Verdad. The rest of us will vie for a distant second...

Oh, had an idea.

Reviews & Essays -- The Hitchens Declaration

I love The Hitchens Declaration.