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To: nickcarraway

You can’t easily make a movie about such a long novel and pull it off.

Also, the movie only makes sense if you read the book.

I enjoyed both, but I understood why the movie was criticized and not very popular.


5 posted on 04/21/2020 3:03:34 PM PDT by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: Sapwolf

It is worth the effort reading or listening to the entire series in chronological order really great. Fantastic actually.


30 posted on 04/21/2020 3:34:04 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Sapwolf

Mulholland Drive didn’t make any sense.


65 posted on 04/21/2020 4:31:15 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Sapwolf

When Stanley Kubrick hired Arthur C. Clarke to write the story for 2001: A Space Odyssey he explained to Clarke “A movie is about 2 to 3 hours long, and consists of about 60 scenes. Each scene can be described in a single sentence. What I want from you is 60 sentences.”

Great novels often make poor films. The best screenwriting comes from short stories. Of course there are exceptions (The Godfather), but in general novels are too big and dense for a film to treat them well.


73 posted on 04/21/2020 4:47:13 PM PDT by motor_racer (If you don't read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed.)
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To: Sapwolf

SyFy did so successfully.

Another Dune Remake?
https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/03/08/another-dune-remake/


81 posted on 04/22/2020 1:29:34 PM PDT by tbw2
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