In Reply to: Re: So it's too much like the book - is that the complaint? posted by brewthunda on November 15, 2001 at 09:34:00:
Rather, too LITERAL. There's a big difference. It's an accepted fact that a play, transferred to the screen literally, induces claustrophobia. It must be *opened up*. Likewise a book.Incidentally, a fine example of stage/screen transfer was Donald Margulies' "Dinner with Friends" on HBO. This Pulitzer-prize-winning play was transcendant on television. And then Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" actually worked far better as a movie that as a novel, IMO. So it goes.
No, the conflict onscreen in HP, according to the writer, is between skilled craftmanship, which was not lacking, and magic.
clark
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- No, not "too much like the book." - clarkjohnsen 08:31:16 11/16/01 (0)