Hello everyone... I have looked through this board and I am very glad JaysPlays invited me in... Reading through some of the strings I noticed one subject that was missing, Adaptations... So I will ask the first question: If you were given a novel how do you decide what goes into a screen or stage play and what is left out? Keeping in mind the orignal writers intent... Ootsy
...not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. Henry David Thoreau
I've always wanted to adapt "Catch-22". I love the book and I think it would make a hilarious film, but as anyone who has ever read it knows, it would be really hard to write a screenplay from it. I did see a film of it once, but I thought it was terrible hehe
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
LilMiss that is my point... the book Catch-22 does make for a excellant read... and you are right about the movie also... It is the descriptive part of a book either bio's or fiction that make the characters more interesting... So the question still stands... Which parts of a story do you use and why...when the description is just as important to the characters and plot... Where is that line drawn... Now that might make for a intersting contest.... hum Ootsy
...not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. Henry David Thoreau
I liked the film of Catch 22 – but then I saw it before I read the book, and think that the young Alan Arkin was perfectly cast. I then read Slaughterhouse five which I loved and could not see how they could film it – an opinion i maintained when I eventually saw a film of it.
Why the question Ootsy? Have you or are you adapting something?
'All we see and seem is but a dream within a dream' Poe
The trouble with an adaptation is that anyone whose read a book is going to have their own opinion of what should go into the film, and you'll always get people who come out disappointed. I get really annoyed at the Harry Potter films because they don't put in what I want them to.
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
Hehe, I wouldn't make them longer, but I would alter what got put it and what got left out if it was up to me. I can't wait to see how much they have to chop out of the next few books.
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
