"But, you know, movies have been doing this forever and ever."
Oh, indeed. But, you know, that's no excuse for doing it again.
It has one upside: as a cautionary tale. When people respond to my complaints about the media colonization of Tolkien by saying that a movie can't bury a book, at least not a good one, I have two counter-examples, good books that have been buried by their movies, in the sense that, even though the book is available and supposedly widely read, few people know how it differs from the movie or how much, and are inevitably surprised when they find out. They are:
1) Frankenstein
2) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (a book whose very title has been buried by its movie's)
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Oh, indeed. But, you know, that's no excuse for doing it again.
It has one upside: as a cautionary tale. When people respond to my complaints about the media colonization of Tolkien by saying that a movie can't bury a book, at least not a good one, I have two counter-examples, good books that have been buried by their movies, in the sense that, even though the book is available and supposedly widely read, few people know how it differs from the movie or how much, and are inevitably surprised when they find out. They are:
1) Frankenstein
2) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (a book whose very title has been buried by its movie's)