Dragaera

I just had a thought

Mon Dec 16 18:20:13 PST 2002

Casey Rousseau wrote:
> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
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>>The general problem is that a novel is simply too big a story 
>>to make into a movie.  It doesn't fit.  
>>
>>The specific problem is that so much of what goes on in the 
>>Vlad books is internal.  That's hard to handle in a movie.
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> 

A more general problem is that, one is a book and the other is a movie.

Basically the different mediums have different strengths and advantages.

Take for instance, LotR. This is quite a reasonable adaption. Yes 
Jackson played arround with a few things, and mostly to the advantage of 
the story. The biggest difference however between the two versions, is 
that Tolkein concentrates a _lot_ on the depiction of the landscape, 
with very detailed description that can sometime go for pages without 
any of the characters actually doing anything. In the film how ever this 
can be replaced with a 20 second visual sequence just showing you what 
it looks like. Of course it won't look that same as anyone envisiged, 
but hey no movie is ever going to achieve that.

Also narative point of view has to be treated differently. Films are 
naturally suited to third person.

Andrew.



> An excellent statement of the problems.
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> Casey
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