On writing - literature and movie stories
Ive seen movie adaptation from various sources like short story,novella,novellete,poem,non fiction,existing movies.But we keep hearing from the author and reader of the book that its no match to the book.Infact most of the borrwoed material are the ones that make a good movie,not when written directly.The bengali novel Pather Panchali,a radical movie seeded in the audience,critics and artists is been said by its novel writer that this is not what i had written.There are few more writers who stops giving stories as a result of their disatisfaction on there first few(JD Salinger for eample after his short story adaptation).Reading and watching is quite a different thing,on watching the audience enjoy the indulgence of detailsof every scene,whereas on reading active participation and intelligence of reader is required.Visual extragavanza can never be replaced by words,words can never be replaced visually on the narration,densely packed commentaries and theme. Ive heard that Ernest Hem...