From: Erin Noonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 21:51:27 BST
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>Erin, Sam,
>
>But what the people who love a certain book and despise the movie version
>because of detail omissions/changes fail to realize is that film is a
>different medium than literature. Stephen King wrote the screenplay for the
>film of his own book, "The Green Mile" and decided to abbreviate certain
>parts in the interests of time and for better on-screen action. I thought it
>worked well; I certainly would rather have watched the shortened, more
>immediate version of events rather than a carbon copy of the description
>given in the book. Few would argue that he "trashed" his own work. Too many
>people misjudge movies based on how much they might have abbreviated from the
>book, but this isn't necessarily intellectual deprivation. It is only
>intellectual deprivation when the ideas themselves are so muddled by
>pandering to reach a certain audience so as to become unrecognizable. Have
>you ever seen what Martin Scorsese can do to books like Wiseguy and Raging
>Bull? You can argue whether or not he provided a better or more focused
>interpretation of events, but you can't say that he didn't get those ideas
>across in the first place. I'm still waiting to see what he can do with
>'Gangs of New York.'
>
>Rasheed
Stephen King obviously had a high degree
of artistic control.
Pirsig agreed at first to make the movie and my guess
is that he would have allowed it if he had some artistic
control too.
But that's a good point. Film is a different type of art.
So somebody writing novels might not be good at making
movies. But in Lila it also sounded like Pirsig was fine
with a screenwriter doing the job.
An author may not be allowed complete artistic control
but from my impression the amount of artistic control
was way too low to be comfortable in selling the rights
to the book.
erin
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