• Rolando@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    His approach to adapting stories is worth thinking about. He didn’t take a book/story and start carefully adapting scenes. He used them as a starting point.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Which is like most people’s biggest complaint about modern adaptations. Writers who write their own story on top of something else. It can work but for a lot of writers it really doesn’t.