I'm going to take the third question right now and come back to the middle one.
I wish we could stop having adaptations in the sense we have now, which invites all sorts of purist bitching, and have something closer to fanfic, in which the way one is revisioning the original story is honest and in the open. Comic book adaptations probably come the closest--not only are the origin stories updated, but a lot of the plots have to be completely original to the movie, and the canon has to be simplified in a process that makes adapting War and Peace look easy. That doesn't mean film adaptations can't be canon whorish, but it does recognize that they'll never be the same as the original book or whatnot, and that's okay.
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Date: 2007-12-10 11:39 am (UTC)I wish we could stop having adaptations in the sense we have now, which invites all sorts of purist bitching, and have something closer to fanfic, in which the way one is revisioning the original story is honest and in the open. Comic book adaptations probably come the closest--not only are the origin stories updated, but a lot of the plots have to be completely original to the movie, and the canon has to be simplified in a process that makes adapting War and Peace look easy. That doesn't mean film adaptations can't be canon whorish, but it does recognize that they'll never be the same as the original book or whatnot, and that's okay.