Literary Adaptations: Episode 4
For this episode of my Literary Adapations series, I present three solid novels with three wildly different takes on adapting them to the screen. Now that I've been paying attention to screen adaptations, I'm realising that there are very key issues that make something work for me or ruin the experience. First, sometimes the adaptation is just too faithful to the book. I haven't got an example of that here, mostly because I discontinue watching them, because, really, I've already read the whole thing. This happened with A Gentleman in Moscow . A marvellous series I'm sure, but it seemed so long and so faithful to the book (which I loved) that I decided not to spend the time, after two episodes in. This is not something that's necessarily a criticism; rather, perhaps an overly faithful retelling doesn't always excite. It follows, then, that an adaptation that chooses to make some cuts or reinterpretations to the source material can be a very good thing. It s...
