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25 March 2009

Adaptation

I've been thinking a lot lately about the challenges of adapting stories from other media to film. What, really, is the point of doing a film adaptation? What makes something a “good” adaptation? Eventually I hope to have my thoughts in enough order to write about it.

For the moment, I just offer this new trailer ...

... and the thought that if you try to adapt the classics, you need to swing for the fences. It may not work, but anything less is sure to fail.

4 comments:

  1. d a r k c h i l d e25 March, 2009

    Spike Jonze (who was the photographer at Freestylin' when I was a wee lassie flatlander) is the director of this...

    Woot!

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  2. Erik25 March, 2009

    Wow. This will either be a dream come true or the reason that millions of people will slit their wrists in the bath. God, I hope it's the former.

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  3. Kate25 March, 2009

    I am aiming for the "dream come true." If the film lives up the the trailer, I will buy the DVD.

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  4. Kate25 March, 2009

    "up to"

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