![]() LOTR is perhaps the modern cinema's best example of a film that stands for good or bad on its own, despite being based on an infinitely popular novel. If we can safely assume that a book's printedness is a part of what it is (and I see no reason not to so assume), what gets lost, and what added, in the translation from print to screen? The outliers are such works as Contempt and Adaptation., films that primarily derive meaning from how they are not the book they are based on far more common is a film like Jaws, which streamlines and changes and just altogether improves upon the source story, or The Lord of the Rings, which alters, "moviefies" if you will, an already solid and beloved film, leaving some of its themes intact and replacing others. ![]() Adaptating a book into a movie must be a tricky thing at the best of times.
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