tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post3273512844239025326..comments2024-01-27T20:23:45.771+00:00Comments on Sulci Collective: Film Adaptations Of NovelsSulci Collectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-40688069273088716472013-05-13T21:47:46.744+01:002013-05-13T21:47:46.744+01:00Interesting points. Have you ever seen the documen...Interesting points. Have you ever seen the documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture? It includes a promo clip from the 1960s where Paramount product discusses (tangentially) acquiring books to be made into movies.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rwRM9C2cBw&feature=youtube_gdata_player<br /><br />The thing is, books and stories have been made into films for as long as films have existed. To be honest, I preferred the film version of Cloud Atlas to the book -- the book seemed to get in the way of its own themes too much. Katherine Hajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08270232675026751342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-55370180361575899612013-02-26T20:17:20.481+00:002013-02-26T20:17:20.481+00:00I was going to say something about TV dramatisatio...I was going to say something about TV dramatisations of Classic novels. I think they work because there's a long and developed tradition of them where they are nothing other than they purport to be, TV dramas to bring the Classics to new audiences who may not have heard of them let alone read the books. This is different from one off films of the same, where the emphasis is necessarily more on box office, unlike the BBC (although they undoubtedly have an eye on box set sales and exporting to the USA). I don't have any problem with this cottage industry in the Classics, because it kind of does exactly what it says on the tin. Nor do i have a problem with adapting books like Morse or even Wire In the Blood - it's the higher concept literary books that leave a lot more for the reader's imagination I think ought to be left alone.Sulci Collectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-57891097289862608312013-02-26T18:39:34.115+00:002013-02-26T18:39:34.115+00:00Interesting post Marc. I love both books and am in...Interesting post Marc. I love both books and am in two minds about seeing the films (missed Pi now but might see Cloud Atlas this week). I know what you mean but sometimes filmmakers can bring a book to live that makes you want to see it afresh.<br /><br />Having said that I rarely like film adaptations of my favourite books - The English Patient works I think, and A Woman in Black, because they focus on the sense and not the exact novel. <br /><br />In terms of TV, Dickens usually works well - maybe that's because he is very episodic? I also think Brideshead (which is very faithful to the book) is brilliant and made me want to read the book and Oranges are not the only Fruit likewise (though it misses the intellectual riffs of the novel). Maybe it's better to see a film first and THEN enjoy the book?<br /><br />Oh yes and sometimes adaptations are better, Morse for example!Virginia Moffatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12071059148315715405noreply@blogger.com