[Tasl] Great Book, Bad Movie

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Great Book, Bad Movie
How Hollywood ruins novels.By Willing Davidson
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, at 2:04 PM ET 


Why does Hollywood take our favorite novels and turn them into c***?
This isn't an original complaint: Liking the book better than the movie is a middlebrow rite of passage. And novels are a constant, renewable source of stories for Hollywood, with ready-built brand appeal—from the kiddie franchises (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Narnia) to the airport bangers (Da Vinci Code, the Bourne etceteras). Nor are these always bad movies. It turns out that good plots and an epic dimension translate well from page to screen. But the attempt to scale this model by making midsize movies from literary novels has been an ugly disaster. In our post-The Reader world, I can safely say that I'd rather personally digitize back issues of Talk magazine than see another movie based on Harvey Weinstein's favorite book.
 
http://www.slate.com/id/2211410/?GT1=38001
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