Here's a thing. Should films be loyal to source material? Does a film encourage viewers to read the books? Or do they trust the filmmaker to have shown "the important bits"?
Book and film are two different mediums so I don't think it's essential the film be a detailed translation of the book. Even Shakespeare adaptations take liberties with the text. Branagh's Hamlet has all the dialogue but it's set in the 19th century. I have no problem with that. The book is always there if you want to read it. It also depends which you encounter first, when I saw Jaws at the cinema I loved it and sought out the book which includes an affair between Brody's wife and Hooper. I much preferred the movie.
@@Top10Charts3978How much liberty? Why not create your own story? I know it's harder, but to watch "Three Musketeers", with Buckingham a villain flying a baloon (Zeppeln?!) is to this day too much for me to stomach. Of course, on the other hand, when Kurosawa had his Macbeth filled with arrows by his own soldiers (stuck like a spider in his own web), well...
Hah I know what you mean but even bad films become guilty pleasures. I bought that Three Musketeers movie on blu-ray and in 3D too! Long time Philip K. Dick fans may be horrified at how his stories were translated into Blade Runner and Total Recall but on the other hand fans of those films might be disappointed in finally reading the stories they were 'loosely' based on.
@@Top10Charts3978 What scares me, is that after people believing that the adaptations are "the real thing", they may believe same about "Fake History" movies. Inglou(!)rious Basterds are a good example.
All these movies, many of which are my all time bad boy off the charts ingenious sci fi favourites , have been written by the same guy.... Philip K Dick, and when interviewed, insisted these stories are reality. So my parents and many others who pertain to be intelligent, but have not one iota of spirituality in 'em, fob him off as "bonkers". Pffft. I am not surprised he died young. The people of this world are so naive
Here's a thing. Should films be loyal to source material? Does a film encourage viewers to read the books? Or do they trust the filmmaker to have shown "the important bits"?
Book and film are two different mediums so I don't think it's essential the film be a detailed translation of the book. Even Shakespeare adaptations take liberties with the text. Branagh's Hamlet has all the dialogue but it's set in the 19th century. I have no problem with that. The book is always there if you want to read it. It also depends which you encounter first, when I saw Jaws at the cinema I loved it and sought out the book which includes an affair between Brody's wife and Hooper. I much preferred the movie.
@@Top10Charts3978How much liberty? Why not create your own story? I know it's harder, but to watch "Three Musketeers", with Buckingham a villain flying a baloon (Zeppeln?!) is to this day too much for me to stomach.
Of course, on the other hand, when Kurosawa had his Macbeth filled with arrows by his own soldiers (stuck like a spider in his own web), well...
Hah I know what you mean but even bad films become guilty pleasures. I bought that Three Musketeers movie on blu-ray and in 3D too! Long time Philip K. Dick fans may be horrified at how his stories were translated into Blade Runner and Total Recall but on the other hand fans of those films might be disappointed in finally reading the stories they were 'loosely' based on.
@@Top10Charts3978 What scares me, is that after people believing that the adaptations are "the real thing", they may believe same about "Fake History" movies. Inglou(!)rious Basterds are a good example.
All these movies, many of which are my all time bad boy off the charts ingenious sci fi favourites , have been written by the same guy.... Philip K Dick, and when interviewed, insisted these stories are reality. So my parents and many others who pertain to be intelligent, but have not one iota of spirituality in 'em, fob him off as "bonkers". Pffft. I am not surprised he died young. The people of this world are so naive