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Nov. 7th, 2005 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumPhilip Hensher in The Guardian has summed up quite nicely and far mor eloquently how I feel about movies made from books.
The rationale behind this is, evidently, that fatuous comment that if Dickens were alive today, he'd be writing for EastEnders; a remark that can only be followed by the reflection that if Dickens did write EastEnders, it would be so very much improved in quality as to be unrecognisable.
Any of my Brit friends watching Bleak House? There was a 'dramatisation' of Our Mutual Friend a few years ago, and, being optimistic after the fairly faithful rendition of P&P (you know which one) I thought perhaps a corner had been turned and it would be just as good. It wasn't. Apparently this one is, mostly, good. Except for the sticklers like me and Philip Hensher.
Frankly I think Dickens shares with Pratchett* Both of them are such master wordsmiths that filming their stories creates a pale imitation at best. Their voice is lost, and with it, much of what makes the stories great.
*or should that be 'Pratchett shares with Dickens'?
The rationale behind this is, evidently, that fatuous comment that if Dickens were alive today, he'd be writing for EastEnders; a remark that can only be followed by the reflection that if Dickens did write EastEnders, it would be so very much improved in quality as to be unrecognisable.
Any of my Brit friends watching Bleak House? There was a 'dramatisation' of Our Mutual Friend a few years ago, and, being optimistic after the fairly faithful rendition of P&P (you know which one) I thought perhaps a corner had been turned and it would be just as good. It wasn't. Apparently this one is, mostly, good. Except for the sticklers like me and Philip Hensher.
Frankly I think Dickens shares with Pratchett* Both of them are such master wordsmiths that filming their stories creates a pale imitation at best. Their voice is lost, and with it, much of what makes the stories great.
*or should that be 'Pratchett shares with Dickens'?