Books V.S. Movies

[Snarky]

Similarly, Sergio Leone's 'A Fistful of Dollars' is a remake of Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo'.

In both cases, the original film is better. 

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Huh? That film is on my "to-see list", as I love Leone's westerns!

Whoa! What a day of revelations!

[Las Naranjas]

Macbeth doesn't suffer much in film adaptations since it's a very tight play. There's not much that becomes superfluous in the film medium.

Adaptations of King Lear often suffer. Alot of the dialogue and soliliquising is needed in the theatre to communicate something that can easily be communicated by the language of film, but some adaptations seem to retain it, and when you do that it comes at the expense of the brilliant writing that is still necessary.

I like the adaptation of Richard III based in the 1930's.

[DGMacphee]

Adaptations of King Lear often suffer. Alot of the dialogue and soliliquising is needed in the theatre to communicate something that can easily be communicated by the language of film, but some adaptations seem to retain it, and when you do that it comes at the expense of the brilliant writing that is still necessary.

Did you think Kurosawa's Ran suffered in this respect? I thought it kept a fine balance between the cinematics and Kurosawa's dialogue while still retaining this overall feel of the original play.

[Nacho]

KUROSAWA??? ANIME AGAIN??? 

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Kurosawa makes anime?

Bleh. I'm really out of it.

[DGMacphee]

* DGMacphee bangs his head very hard against a large, headache-causing brick wall!

[Nacho]

Eeeeeer... Rui...

Are you fooling me, or you really haven't realised I was joking? Ã, 

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Ah.

Sorry, DG. I takje responsibility for fractural damage to the wall.

[Las Naranjas]

When, in year 12, we watched about 10 billion versions of Lear for the sake of comparison, Ran was the only one on the list we didn't watch.