Jun
22
2012
Alexander Payne on Adapting Books
Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“When you adapt a book, you’re not making another book—you’re making a movie, which operates grammatically very, very differently. The better the book is, the more you have to change it. A good book succeeds with literary effects, but you need cinema so you have to just treat it as raw material. Anyone who expects [...]
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