Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by rico (A) on November 17, 2004 at 12:21:41

In Reply to: Bambi B, in a post below, brings up an important point posted by Victor Khomenko on November 17, 2004 at 10:12:42:

Film is a very different medium than books or stories or plays. By necessity, the film makers have to condense and change things to involve a movie audience. At times what works in a book just doesn't on film. although the solution can be clever (as in Pinter's screenplay for "The French Lieutenant's Woman"). On the other hand, sometimes a screenwriter and director can achieve a filmk remarkably close to the book, as in "Mystic River". At times, the film is much better than the book ("Far From the Madding Crowd", "The Godfather") and at other times the film is an abject failure ("Bonfire of the Vanities"). I look for whether the film has caught the "spirit" of the original, rather than an outright copy.

BTW, "The Forsythe Saga", as long as the two TV mini series have been, only cover a couple of the novels.