Apr-08-2011, 12:00 PM (UTC)
There are indeed many books that would make excellent movies/series. The biggest problem is the risk of adaption decay...
Where books can focus on thoughts, movies/series have to focus more on the action. That is one side of the common decay.
Books can have worlds that are more complex than anything possible in this world, and distances are often vast. Movies/series often fail to convey these properly and the world is shrunken to something that is no longer the world of that book. (example: Eragon Dwarven city that was 16,000m tall mountain became only about 1-2000m tall.)
Where books can focus on thoughts, movies/series have to focus more on the action. That is one side of the common decay.
Books can have worlds that are more complex than anything possible in this world, and distances are often vast. Movies/series often fail to convey these properly and the world is shrunken to something that is no longer the world of that book. (example: Eragon Dwarven city that was 16,000m tall mountain became only about 1-2000m tall.)
Note:
when 'thul write in all italics, it is the lord of the three realms within 'thul speaking. A fairly egoistical, but also somewhat simple-minded dragon. Do not take such posts at face value.
when 'thul write in all italics, it is the lord of the three realms within 'thul speaking. A fairly egoistical, but also somewhat simple-minded dragon. Do not take such posts at face value.
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"Its for charity. Widows and orphans. We need more of them."
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"Its for charity. Widows and orphans. We need more of them."
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