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 02:23 pm (UTC)Well, one popular form of adaptation would certainly be a film adapted from a play, and of the possible choices I had there, I'll pick what I hope to be one of the most obscure and pleasantly outrageous plays that made its way to a filmed version, or at least one that-- unbelievably considering the content-- made it's way to PBS back in 1973, which is where I first saw it. (A commercial DVD was released many years later). I thus present to ya'all:
A selection from Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSM-UGJO8s
Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steambath_(play)
Note- doubt it will matter to anyone on my flist, but the youtube clip does contain partial nudity.