Katelyn

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. - Josh Billings

Seemed to be a class appropriate quote.

Anyway.

On the debate of 'book vs. movie' I tend to fall on the book side. (Maybe that's just because I've never actually seen the Godfather.) One of the common themes I noticed throughout the articles is the idea that in order to be good, the adaptation needs to remain true to the main theme of the book. The reason I choose the True Blood article (sorry to those of you that hated it) is because I completely disagree with it. I'm completely in love with the show (trashy as it is) because it's nothing like the books. Well, book. I only read the first one, and it was miserable enough that I had no wish to continue the series. Same with the show Dexter. Love, love, love the show. The books? Horrible. The spoken alliterations, while annoying, aren't as bad as the random CAPITALIZED alliterations in the book, that to me scream gimmicky writing. The character in the show is much more... well, anti-hero in a fun way. And, like one of the articles mentions being super important, it's awesomely cast - Michael C. Hall's portrayal of Dexter is amazing.

The reason I included the article with the list of adaptations was because I rarely think about the fact that most movies are based on novels, unless I've actually read the book or they make a point of noting it somewhere. Like Jaws? Never knew that was a book.

I also probably should’ve looked for an article about it, but the production of the movie Lolita had a lot of negative response. And that was despite the fact that they made her older in the movie, and had an older actress play her, too. Which just makes me think that for many people there’s a huge disassociation between reading something and seeing it. It seems that it’s easier to be subversive in books instead of movies, still.