[ SECRET POST #2207 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2207 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #315.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think a lot of fans who hate this really understand how unbelievably difficult it is to translate a plot between two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT mediums.

Movies serve a different audience than books. They're much more broad, and they can't assume an audience. You aren't given the leisure of insight through the character's thoughts or a consistent narrative voice. Some plot points are far more interesting written than seen. In some cases plot points are made interesting because of the inner turmoil they cause the character, but that can't really be depicted visually, so it doesn't translate.

Simply put, it's not really about vision, it's about recognize the differences between the medium, audience, and methods of communication found in two very different forms of storytelling.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Books, television, movies, stage, games, they all have different demands on and capabilities towards stories. Moving between media WILL have an effect on what you can do and how you can do it (like how the Nothing in Neverending Story wasn't really something you could easily represent visually, or how Les Miserables had to be compressed a lot to fit into a live show without killing the actors every night).

That said, there are some changes that take place in adaptations that not even traversing the gap between media can explain. So there are still adaptations that don't work even within the demands of the change-over. Changing the overall thrust of the work, breaking characterisation, shoe-horning in random elements like romance plots for the sake of it ... some things are problematic even accounting for media shifts.

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[(Anonymous)]

I only get mad when they make changes there were no good reason to make. For instance, the way they changed the story for the Silent Hill movie to be a mother searching for her daughter instead of a father, because apparently they didn't think it was "believable" for a father to be that devoted. Don't get me started on how angry I was about that one.