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We need some sort of scale of "sticking to the original plot."
-10 = Starship Troopers, which I'm informed by 90% of the people who watched it that it directly opposes the main message of the book. (FTR: The other 10% disagree strongly in various ways, and may well be right, but I couldn't think of a better example.)
-9 to -1 = Other travesties, directors spectactularly missing the point, butcherings, tacked on happy endings, and things which are worse than nothing.
0 = Films that have the same name as a book but nothing else in common
1 to 9 = Good adaptions, eg. Jackson's LOTR, films better than the original book despite liberties, eg. 39 Steps, nice tries that somehow fell short, direct lifting, eg. Dune, which filmed everything in the book and then cut out half of it to make it fit.
10 = A perfect and good adaption. Any ideas?
12 = HHGTTG since Douglas Adams converted the thing himself, and actually added new good bits with every format, keeping exactly the same spirit, but more so :)
Do I need more axes[*] here?
[*] As in 'more than one axis' not 'more than one axe'. Isn't langauge grand?
We need some sort of scale of "sticking to the original plot."
-10 = Starship Troopers, which I'm informed by 90% of the people who watched it that it directly opposes the main message of the book. (FTR: The other 10% disagree strongly in various ways, and may well be right, but I couldn't think of a better example.)
-9 to -1 = Other travesties, directors spectactularly missing the point, butcherings, tacked on happy endings, and things which are worse than nothing.
0 = Films that have the same name as a book but nothing else in common
1 to 9 = Good adaptions, eg. Jackson's LOTR, films better than the original book despite liberties, eg. 39 Steps, nice tries that somehow fell short, direct lifting, eg. Dune, which filmed everything in the book and then cut out half of it to make it fit.
10 = A perfect and good adaption. Any ideas?
12 = HHGTTG since Douglas Adams converted the thing himself, and actually added new good bits with every format, keeping exactly the same spirit, but more so :)
Do I need more axes[*] here?
[*] As in 'more than one axis' not 'more than one axe'. Isn't langauge grand?
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Date: 2005-02-04 06:55 pm (UTC)I think that Minority report was worse - they totally flipped the ending.
Oh a and you need to separate out the good *film* part vs the good adaption...
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Date: 2005-02-04 07:37 pm (UTC)I, Robot was a good film with a story I didn't like because I didn't agree with it. It was good and emotive and had no logical consistancy.
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Date: 2005-02-04 05:27 pm (UTC)