allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (12/22/85)
Expires: Quoted from <467@oliven.UUCP> ["Re: SF movies [was Re: Emeny Mine]"], by barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan)... +--------------- | As for the problems of book and movie, is a problem of medium. An author | has a comparatively easy pace to tell his/her story. He/she can play 'games', | allowing the reader *inside* the characters' heads, and he/she has no SPX | budget to constrain him/her. (There is a Shelly Berman -- I believe -- spot | on the advantages of radio over television that illustrates this quite well.) | Given a movie, with a budget, with certain 'laws' of capability within that | budget to pull off believable Special Effects, and with a two or so hour | limitation, you have some very interesting problems. A novel into a true-to | its-origin good movie seems almost a contradiction in terms. What do you | leave out? +--------------- Case in point: DUNE. No, the movie wasn't the book, and it contained such nonsense as the Baron's harkening toward another infamous Baron Vlad (those plugs in people's chests) and the ``weirding boxes''; but how in the uni- verse do you show Baron Harkonnen's depravity in a movie which can't show everything (anyone for a ten-hour movie?), and, as for Voice, how do you show *that* in a movie? My opinion is that any movie calling itself DUNE simply *cannot* be a screenplay of the book. Then there's the endings of 2001 and THE BLACK HOLE, both of which lose even with SFX because you can never *show* what's really going on; it defies translation to visual media. --Brandon -- This is a recording. Please leave a message at the tone... <beep> ncoast!allbery%Case.CSNet@CSNet-Relay.ARPA or ..decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery (..ncoast!tdi2!root for business) 6615 Center St., Mentor, OH 44060 Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 MCI MAIL BALLBERY (part-time) TDI wants nothing to do with my opinions. Ditto for Rich (ncoast) Garrett.
tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas) (12/24/85)
Just for the record, I liked the Enemy Mine movie (i just got home
from seeing it), but I liked the original story better. The added
material wasn't really necessary.
RJS (That's Robert J. Sawyer)
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