<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">On re-reading you noticed the mistake, eh?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Take the Tolkien books: superbly written dialog, which the screenwriters and directors decided to change (to justify their jobs and have some creative input, I reckon). But they were not in Tolkien's league, by far. The book Film Flam was really eye-opening. Larry McMurtry's books were made into film and he hated all of them because they were extensively re-written after he took the money.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I further suppose that the films were dumbed down to a 4th grade level (which incidentally was the average reading score of the seniors at a local high school).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Has anyone got good examples of films that were at least decently parallel to the book? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-6443264604731933530WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Many of us have heard people comment about books which have been made into movies, or we viewed the film adaptations ourselves. A nearly uniform comment… (do I even need to say it?)… the film was good but the movie was better.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ok. Sure. With very few exceptions, that is true. But… why?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">For the moment’s let’s skip over the fact that film is slow: you can’t cover much of a book in 90 minutes of drama. Ignore that for a minute and focus on why the written version just seems better than the drama version, even given a cast of really good actors and a good script writer.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">BillW? Adrian, some of you insightful sorts, do offer a speculation please if you have one.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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