I Read It at the Movies The Follies and Foibles of Screen Adaptation
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
ab 18 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2006
Verlag
HeinemannSeitenzahl
144
Maße (L/B/H)
23,3/15,4/1,2 cm
Gewicht
206 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-325-00850-9
Its heard so often that it seems cliched: "the book was better than the movie." Thats because adapting fiction to the silver screen is hard to do well. Why do some adapted screenplays work while others wilt? What do successful adaptations have in common? And what can the screenwriter learn from unsuccessful attempts to go from page to celluloid? If youre a writer who needs answers to these questions, this is the book youre looking for.
In I Read It at the Movies, Mark Axelrod, a veteran screenwriter, fiction writer, and literature professor, alerts you to the pitfalls that sink poorly written adaptations, describes which writing tools to hone for this kind of work, and tells you exactly how to use them. Axelrod leads you through a close reading of four films made from adapted screenplaysBladerunner, Death in Venice, Lolita, and The Postmanexamining in detail what choices the writer made and whether those choices succeeded. He ultimately leads you to understand why a script devoted to the letter of its source work is less desirable and less likely to be well received than one embodying the originating storys spirit.
With so many adaptations in todays theatres, if youre a working or aspiring screenwriter, you need to know how to get inside a book, find its narrative essence, and extract a well-considered, artful, and entertaining screenplay. With I Read It at the Movies everyone who sees a film you write will say, "It was better than the book!"
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