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hollywood loves turningbooks into movies. over 2/3 of theacademy awards for best picture have gone to filmsthat were adapted from books. filmmakers have achoice in how faithful their adaptation shouldbe to their sources. i don't know how to adapt this. i mean, i should juststick with my own stuff. i don't know why i thoughti could write this. some films literallygo by the book.

wingardium leviosa. while others followthe basic plot but modify other thematic elementssuch as setting, language, and era. if the book is alwaysbetter than the movie, why would a director ever wantto mess with the original? here are somereasons to consider. loose adaptations oftenplace a classic text in a modern-day setting, makingthe story more relatable.

mother, i do not need ablind date, particularly not with some verballyincontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney,drinks like a fish, and dresses like her mother. audiences can more easilyempathize with emma when she's talking on aflip phone just like them. mr. hall was way harsh. he gave me a c-minus. well, he gave me a c, whichdrags down my entire average.

hey, clueless cameout in the '90s. they also can frame a literarywork in a youthful lens, appealing to a younger crowd. you're not as mean as youthink you are, you know that? and you're not as badassas you think you are. oh, someone still hasher panties in a twist. don't, for one minute, thinkthat you had any effect whatsoever on my panties. then what did ihave an effect on?

other than my upchuckreflex, nothing. 1999's cruelintentions transformed the sexual escapadesof 18th century french aristocratsinto the makeout games of teenagers sarah michellegellar and reese witherspoon. other filmmakers takethe original work into a completely disparatearea, using the source material to understandcontemporary issues. two.

we want our men alive, wewant our babies to thrive? we gon' have to organize. i mean, you reallythink something like that could bring peace? y'all know the power we haveover them withholding just a day. a week? imagine a month. in a reimagined setting,a wide range of actors

can take on the performanceof a literary character. be not afraid of greatness. some are born great. some achieve greatness. and some have greatnessthrust upon them. they certainly don't have tobe an acclaimed shakespearean specialist, although lemmydid a pretty good job with it in tromeo andjuliet, a movie that veered from the originalshakespeare in almost

every other way. two households, differentas dried plums and pears in fair manhattan,where we lay our scene. finally, in a moredirect film adaptation, even a smallcharacter change or a dropped scene has been knownto upset a die-hard book fan. but these indirectversions have more freedom to make pronounced changesin gender, identity, genre, and tone.

adapting a bookin this way allows filmmakers more autonomyto create movies that are their owndistinct entity, but also make use ofthe strong foundations from their original sources. the times andsetting may change, but the themes related tohuman nature are universal. so when you'rechecking out the latest hollywood adaptationthis year, consider

that there might be a goodreason the director has taken a few liberties.

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