Re: New Sputnik Documentary
- From: henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henry Spencer)
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:16:17 GMT
In article <uu0pv2lf7269gkq5r1s2tv8hcpd6r84h97@xxxxxxx>,
OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You've never read Rocket Boys/October Sky? Better late than never.
Much different from the film, by the way.
...Very few books make a 100% intact adaptation to film, alas.
It's a different language. You have to translate (unless the book was
written as a film script in the first place). And even if the translator
is good, which is not to be taken for granted, some things just don't
translate -- be it an event, a chapter, or even a whole book(*).
(* Which is why there has never been a movie version of "Frankenstein"
that is both faithful and good, and probably never will be. Too much of
its content simply has no translation into reasonable movie scenes. )
Moreover, a two-hour movie made from a normal-sized book almost always
*has* to be a seriously abridged translation.
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