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Movie Adaptations That Work for Me: Part 5 of 5

May 14, 2008

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The ‘Illiad’. The most classical of classics. An epic in every sense of the word. And best of all, no copyright. Nobody owns rights to this thing! Let’s make a movie!
Troy: (some guy named) [...]

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Movie Adaptations That Work for Me: Part 4 of 5

May 12, 2008

When I organized these movies in my head I thought I was going from the least changed to the most changed in regards to the source material. Now I realize I’m also going in reverse cronological order. The X-Men originated in the sixties, The Lord of the Rings was published in the fifties, [...]

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Movie Adaptations That Work for Me: Part 3 of 5

April 28, 2008

Tolkien gave us a fully realized world of fantasy. A history-that-might-have been with its own long history, languages, and races. He gave us maps with mountains, seas, and countries so we knew just where our heroes were when we read they rode up to Minas Tirith or rowed across the Long Lake. [...]

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Movie Adaptations That Work for Me: Part 2 of 5

April 22, 2008

Last time we talked about the difficulty of adapting the long, intricate storylines of a comic series into a movie. X-Men went on to be a trilogy although if you’re looking for good writing, there’s only two movies.
What if you already had a trilogy though? Wouldn’t that be tailor-made to a movie trilogy? [...]

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Movie Adaptations That Work For Me: Part 1 of 5

April 14, 2008

The book is better than the movie. It’s a common complaint from people who read a lot. It’s often true but you know what? Movies aren’t books. They’re movies. It seems obvious but I think many people just don’t really grasp how different writing a screenplay is from a novel. In fact I think most [...]

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