I used to think this way but had an epiphany along the way.
The book is excellent and exists no matter what. Someone making an adaptation to film doesn’t ruin the book. It just interprets it and allows me to dip into that world again for a second chance at rediscovering it.
If the movie is a failure then that’s just a failure to me. At the very least it influenced just one other person to go read the book and get the experience I once did.
If the movie is successful then the series is again relevant to a new generation and maybe even more of them will go check out the book upon which it’s based. Either way, the art I love is being discovered by more people.
The movie is not the book and the book is not the movie. Any interpretation of the source material is not a personal slight to me because I see them as two separate entities.
I agree with that totally, I don’t care about it changing my feelings about the books (why would it), it’s just me expecting a great interpretation but instead getting a short simplified story with explosions & edgy oneliners. They could change the Earth crew to be literal Star Trek characters as long as it’s good.
I used to think this way but had an epiphany along the way.
The book is excellent and exists no matter what. Someone making an adaptation to film doesn’t ruin the book. It just interprets it and allows me to dip into that world again for a second chance at rediscovering it.
If the movie is a failure then that’s just a failure to me. At the very least it influenced just one other person to go read the book and get the experience I once did.
If the movie is successful then the series is again relevant to a new generation and maybe even more of them will go check out the book upon which it’s based. Either way, the art I love is being discovered by more people.
The movie is not the book and the book is not the movie. Any interpretation of the source material is not a personal slight to me because I see them as two separate entities.
I agree with that totally, I don’t care about it changing my feelings about the books (why would it), it’s just me expecting a great interpretation but instead getting a short simplified story with explosions & edgy oneliners. They could change the Earth crew to be literal Star Trek characters as long as it’s good.
I’m a huge fan of the Dune books. Villeneuve delivered with the two adaptations so far.