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⌈ Secret Post #4936 ⌋

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Re: What adaptations do you prefer over the original?

[(Anonymous)]

Stardust the movie beats the pants off Stardust the book, if for no other reason than the existence of Robert Deniro's Captain Shakespeare, but I like the whole thing way more.

I like lots of film adaptations of long running, big-name superhero comics better than the comics they're based on, if I can say that when there's so many I haven't read, simply because I don't have the energy to read the monstrous backlog of most superhero comics, or do the research and read the arguments between fans of competing arcs/writers/eras to just pick one to focus on. I tend to like film adaptations of shorter self-contained works less than or sometimes equally well as the source material.

I like the animated Disney Beauty and the Beast better than the original sprawling story with the cannibalistic ogre mom and all the faerie politics, but about equally with Robin McKinley's Beauty, which is what the Disney adaptation probably ripped off. Disney gets points for gorgeous art and pretty songs though.

I won't say I love the ALW musical adaptation of Leroux's Phantom of the Opera more than the book, or any of the movies more, or the Kay novel which is fun in a ridiculous romance novel way (okay minus the Oedipus/Elektra complex), but I love that the musical's popularity feeds the pan-fandom synthesis where people Frankenstein bits from various versions together has produced so much cool fan content (including more than one crossover where Erik is Shelley's Creature, speaking of Frankenstein.)

I like the V for Vendetta film a smidge more than the graphic novel, because I'm Evey/V shipper trash and the film makes it (slightly, it's still unnerving because torture and reprogramming) easier to ship (Evey's not as young and naive, V falls in romantic love with her) and also because it was cool that the way it was updated from the GN took so many potshots at the war on terror/Fox "news"/etc at a time when that was hard to find in mainstream stuff.