Entries from April 2007

April 21, 2007

Book into movie

Hollywood is notorious for converting novels into screenplays which bear little, if any, resemblance to the original book.
A number of movies about Hollywood have had subversive fun with this “corruption by adaptation,” mocking the pretentions of studio executives and snooty authors alike (my favorite is The Last Tycoon, the film of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel).
Some [...]