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Before the release of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962), author-turned-screenwriter Vladimir Nabokov said, “I have not yet seen the picture. It may turn out to be a lovely morning mist as perceived through mosquito netting, or it may turn out to be the swerves of a scenic drive as felt by the horizontal passenger of an ambulance.” Stephen King was less ambivalent about Kubrick’s work in The Shining (1980). “[He] thinks too much and feels too little; and that’s why, for all its virtuoso effects, it never gets you by the throat and hangs on the way real horror should.”
But let’s not get into the “which is better – the book or the film?” question, which is framed from the author (or reader’s) point of view. Let’s, instead, look at the Kubrick aspect, the director’s POV, and see how different filmmakers from different cultures adapt books, and how they use the same techniques (say, the long take) in different ways. Take this scene from Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas (1990), where Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) takes Karen (Lorraine Bracco) on a date to the Copacabana club. It’s one of the greatest instances of form servicing content. We see what is happening. It’s equally easy to intuit why it is happening.
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tonks
January 8, 2018
This made interesting and informative reading. Atonement was such a brilliantly written book with such layers of psychology inside it that one would think the movie would fall short. It didnt.
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Madan
January 8, 2018
Loved it. Yet to view the excerpts though. My favourite adaptation is the BBC TV adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alec Guinness LIVED George Smiley. Even the subtle emphasis on some words was just the way I had imagined Smiley saying them.
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Madan
January 8, 2018
David Suchet as Poirot was another. The only decent Poirot but an incredible one. I saw him in a fairly recent English film and he was pretty much unrecognizable as the man who had played Poirot.
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Vivek narain
January 8, 2018
There was a movie,’Logan’s Run’. The movie couldn’t be adapted with the original novel but Logan Jessica and Francis made the movie memorable.
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KayKay
May 27, 2022
And….what a way for the week to end in a spectacularly shitty manner!
RIP Ray Liotta
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praneshp
May 27, 2022
Oh I wouldn’t have guessed Liotta will be the first gone to go 😦 RIP
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Madan
May 27, 2022
RIP. A bad day in general for Western art world. Alan White, the long time drummer of Yes, died. Also Andrew Fletcher of Depeche Mode.
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Jayram
May 27, 2022
Thanks for the memories, Ray Liotta! You will be missed!
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2022/5/26/23143778/ray-liotta-henry-hill-goodfellas-obituary
Also, farewell to Alan White and Andrew Fletcher.
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