Day #26 of the 30 Day Film Challenge
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shadowkatDay #26 of The 30 Day Film Challenge.
A Film You Like That Was Adapted From Somewhere
(And no, we can't pick the one we just did.)
This is my favorite Harry Potter film, which was directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who is among my favorite directors. He improves on the book, and manages to do something the prior directors didn't which is improve on the book and make it something new.
Adaptations are hard to do. You have to please the people who loved the original, and bring in a new audience. Also somehow stay true to the source material. John Le Carre famously stated that he preferred adaptations that veered from his work - he liked to see another point of view. I considered picking one of his, but I can't remember the films adapted from his books that well.
I feel like this is a memory test - and I'm kind of failing at it. Although to be fair, my brain has a lot to deal with at the moment.
A Film You Like That Was Adapted From Somewhere
(And no, we can't pick the one we just did.)
This is my favorite Harry Potter film, which was directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who is among my favorite directors. He improves on the book, and manages to do something the prior directors didn't which is improve on the book and make it something new.
Adaptations are hard to do. You have to please the people who loved the original, and bring in a new audience. Also somehow stay true to the source material. John Le Carre famously stated that he preferred adaptations that veered from his work - he liked to see another point of view. I considered picking one of his, but I can't remember the films adapted from his books that well.
I feel like this is a memory test - and I'm kind of failing at it. Although to be fair, my brain has a lot to deal with at the moment.
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Date: 2020-09-26 01:46 am (UTC)So I chose an adaptation of an adaptation: Magazine cartoon to TV series to movie, The Addams Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G388UMkJIBE
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Date: 2020-09-26 02:39 am (UTC)That's a good pick. It was also turned into a musical and then an animated film.
I liked the movie though - perfect casting. I mean it really did have perfect casting.
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Date: 2020-09-26 02:43 pm (UTC)Apparently it worked the other way around, too! ;-)
This film could have gone so badly, but oh my, did it ever not! As 'kat already noted, just brilliant casting. A classic of the genre, for sure.