08-12-2004, 10:17 AM
Quote:Originally posted by DarkKnightBob
And I bet you were dissapointed that remote control cars never lived up to how cool it was to ride a REAL car.
Um, since when is riding in a car cool? :confused:
Quote:Originally posted by DarkKnightBob
When will people get the whole thing that you cannot fit everything that happens in a book into a film. They are TOTALLY different medias. They have totally different rules for what you can use to get the readers interest.
Books express concepts and can have a half hour discussion on a philosophical topic. Films requires action and movement.
The thing is that I DO get it, normally I don't care too much about book-to-film conversions. Take 'Fight Club' for an example, that was a sweet movie, and it stayed very true to the book, sure there were some little changes, but they just were part of taking the story from page to film. (Even though I admit I prefer the book) And on a more juvinille note, the movie "Holes" also was a basically perfect book to film conversion...(hey, I teach 4th grade, so I have read that one a bunch...)
My beef with BR is that even with the fact that they could only fit so much in the film, they changed so many characters and events from way cool stuff in the book, to really lame stuff in the film.
My dream is that someone will bust out a sweet anime adaptation or even a live action series. You know, it could probably fit into 52 eps or so...
