Tag: adaptation

For those of us who were kids in the 1980s, Brooke Shields was a goddess. By 1981, she was a world famous model and actress….

Like P. L. Travers said, a writer is only half the book, the other half is the reader. Moreover, each reader is unique in what…

Hi #FilmTwitter what are your top 3 film adaptations (books adapted to film) and why? @Filmotomy @itsdougjam and @aaroncharles18 and myself will read them out…

So we asked What are the Legitimate Best Nicolas Cage Performances? And many of you voted, picking up to 10. We were kind of going…

The entire seduction takes us in and ultimately makes us, the audience, accessories to the crimes of a likeable, lonely and extremely troubled young man. And we guiltily enjoy every minute of it.

Whenever asked about my favorite Martin Scorsese film, I typically went with the usual, more generally acceptable suspects across Scorsese film geeks. Movies like Goodfellas…

Occasionally a complex literary work will connect with the right director and screenwriter who will select a point of view, edit the hell out of the details and modify the arrangement of various elements to support the change in medium from page to screen. When this happens, we, the audience, are handed a diamond that has been painfully pressed from the coal that is the written word. The flurries of words that challenge our imaginations when we read are replaced by the filmmaker’s creative interpretation that somehow maintains all the complexities of the original book.

When a powerful play is adapted to incorporate some of the technical features possible with film, the end result can be transporting. A savvy director and crew will mine the dramatic work for opportunities to maneuver the camera in such a way as to take the audience out of their seats and place them in the middle of the action (just as one would with any other film genre). The playwright’s words should not be treated as a wall that defines the boundaries of the film, but as a door that opens into another medium of expression.