From: Jeffrey Canton <jeffrey_canton>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:44:23 -0800 (PST)

While it is always interersting to know what films move different viewers, I'm interested in probing beyond the "I-liked-this, I-didn't-like-that" level and knowing what "readers" think of how films are adapted (staying true to literary text vs. total disregard for the text on which a film is made), what kinds of films are being made (live-action, claymation, full-length-animated, etc.), the kinds of choices that are being made to change text and why
(for example, in terms of casting) and perhaps, most, importantly to me the idea of how the film's intended audience plays out in the minds of "readers".

Why is it, for example, that we can find several fine renderingz of The Secret Garden in film but the recent adaptation of The Dark is Rising trivializes the book to a degree that makes you inclined to wonder why the film was ever made? What kind of reaction does an audience who knows a text well -- for example, in the case of the Harry Potter books -- have in terms of adaptations? I've noticed, for example, with the Potter films, a growing disregard for important plot points that only make sense if you have read the books as well.

What do you think?

Jeffrey Canton

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