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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I've wondered if a large reason movie adaptations rarely work (well, outside of needing to pare the story down to fit into a movie's length) is that a large part of a well written story is the picture the author can create in your mind's eye. When it is put into film, then it is someone else's interpretation, and it often doesn't fit as well as your own.
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Yeah that happens almost every time. You think of something/someone looking a certain way when you read the book and then they make a movie of it that looks ridiculous in comparison. And when they chop all the good stuff out so they can tell the story in 90 minutes and all hope is lost.
I mentioned it in the draft thread --
A Prayer For Owen Meany was a great book but the movie (loosely based) called "Simon Birch" just didn't cut it.
When I was in school a professor railed about the version of
A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man that he had assigned. He said it was the cheapest version available so that's why he ordered it, but it had a few illustrations that didn't look anything like he had imagined. This old coot had been reading the book for 40 years, so he was pretty sure what it looked like.
"There's no goddamn way he leans against the mantel like that" he said about one particular scene and the accompanying illustration. He bitched about that for quite awhile. I remember thinking "just shut the hell up and tell us what we're missing", but he did have a point.