I kind of agree. Novel adaptations are often too straightforward and concerned with getting the plot right instead of pushing the boundaries for what film can do.
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It all depends on the vision, but I think it's fair to say that adaptations are often too concerned with just translating the plot from one medium to another medium. Don't get me wrong, I like an easily digestible movie with a nice plot, but I do think it's fair if you're only interested in films that do something that only film as a medium can do.
It all depends on the vision, but I think it's fair to say that adaptations are often too concerned with just translating the plot from one medium to another medium. Don't get me wrong, I like an easily digestible movie with a nice plot, but I do think it's fair if you're only interested in films that do something that only film as a medium can do.
Obviously. It all depends on the vision, but I think it's fair to say that adaptations are often too concerned with just translating the plot from one medium to another medium. Don't get me wrong, I like an easily digestible movie with a nice plot, but I do think it's fair if you're only interested in films that do something that only film as a medium can do.
It all depends on the vision, but I think it's fair to say that adaptations are often too concerned with just translating the plot from one medium to another medium. Don't get me wrong, I like an easily digestible movie with a nice plot, but I do think it's fair if you're only interested in films that do something that only film as a medium can do.
If I rembemer correctly, there's this one scene in the movie where Garp and his wife are looking for a new home. As they are looking at a potential house, a plane crashes straight into it. Garp's immediate reaction is to buy the house, because the statistical likelihood of this ever happening again must be almost zero.
While the scene perfectly corresponds with the entire atmosphere of the novel, I don't think it was actually in it.
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Btw did any of you watch Netflix's Love? The characters from that show were all assholes. I'm not even sure that's what the writers intended.
Started watching The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. The way they force the Kardashian sisters (as kids) into the series by namedropping them and showing their reactions when it serves no purpose is so cringeworthy.
I watched the show and I remember the OJ trial, but I was 8 years old iirc. What I thought of it back then is that basically a very famous sports guy killed his ex wife and that he got off because of expensive lawyers.
When I look at it now I realise it's most likely not the lawyers that got him free at all. Rather it's the distrust towards the LAPD, racial riots and a whole lot of shit leading up to an almost inevitable acquittal.
Btw the trial in itself must have been incredible. Keeping a jury sequestered for over half a year? Wtf? And this glove shit, the 'nigger' debates, Fuhrman, DNA evidence.. I doubt there will ever be something like it again.
I've only watched two episodes so far, so I don't know if they're going to elaborate on Robert Kardashian's plotline or not, but what his family thought about his involvement seems really trivial. The scene with the Kardashian children watching their father on television, for example, doesn't add anything at all. Sure, they are really short scenes and obviously don't ruin the show, but they feel really out of place.
The trial itself is obviously really interesting. I hear there is a 7 hour "30 for 30" about O.J. Simpson on its way too.
The trial itself is obviously really interesting. I hear there is a 7 hour "30 for 30" about O.J. Simpson on its way too.
