- What makes a book's storyline great differs dramatically from what makes a movie's storyline great.
- The book's storyline may be too difficult to adapt to film as it is.
- The screenwriters, directors, and/or producers are fucked up.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Book to Film adaptation: why they mess it up.
Many of us are familiar with Hollywood's infamous botchery of many classic and popular books. Many times a book may have an excellent storyline yet Hollywood pillages and rapes the story into something that little resembles the original masterpiece. I have three possible theories for this phenomenon.
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