[ SECRET POST #3241 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3241 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Working late again, sorry!

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 018 secrets from Secret Submission Post #463.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Inspired by #2

[skeletal_history]

In every novel to be adapted, there are big things and little things that are the vital organs of that story, and there are big things and little things that are, like, the gall bladder or a kidney, and then there are the things that are the appendix or the tonsils.

So I expect book-to-movie adaptations to be able to recognize the core principles of the work and keep them pristine -- if they can't even get that stuff right, then fuck them, they suck and the adaptation shouldn't exist. I hope and pray they'll get the gall bladders and kidneys right, as those are the details that give the story its character and flavor. If they cut out the appendix, they're probably doing the story some good.

The hard part is finding people to work on the adaptation that can correctly prioritize which aspects of the story are which type of organ.

Like, I mentioned hating the remake of The Crimson Petal and the White in the thread above. My favorite character -- and indeed, he is one of my favorite characters in all literature, period -- is the secondary character, Henry Rackham. To me, it is heart-level important that Henry be a big handsome, strapping, athletic, Greek God of a man -- it is *critical* that Henry be an embodiment of the idea of Muscular Christianity, and ALSO that he, alone of all the men in the book, *look* like he should be a haughty, entitled, chauvinist asshole....while he is actually a sweet, neurotic, gentle giant of a man who has not a single inclination to misuse women. And yet the 2013 adaptation cast Mark Gatiss. Who played him as a stuffy prig. So he was ruined. Like some ignorant surgeon removed a perfectly good kidney, and now it's become apparent that the other kidney isn't doing too well and....oops, now we're on dialysis and my metaphor has run away from me entirely, so I'll stop here.

Re: Inspired by #2

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This is a perfect description, yes!