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Originally Posted by I, Brian While it's a good diea for her to set the record straight, there is absolutely no way most film and TV productions are going to be able to properly honour the stories they cover from novels.
I've actually considered that this is usually a good idea - you cannot hope to reproduce the hundreds of pages of a book to a mere couple of hours on-screen time. And sometimes er-interpretations can be pretty interesting.
One thing film especially seems keen to do, is to dumb down towards a lower denominator for marketing purposes - to justify working in the more expensive medium. In some ways that can be dishonest to its source, but in others, it helps capture a wider audience than might possibly ever have encountered the book before.
Maybe Earthsea on TV isn't the same as Earthsea as a series of novels - but it was never going to be that way. However, let's see if sales of the books don't jump as people who would never had touched it before, encounter her worlds - and her ideas - in the detail she originally intended. |
Being a Dune fan (both book and movie, but hating with passion the mini - mostly for bad acting and bad directing IMO) I can understand why an adaptation can't be strictly following the novel, or even be loosly based on. What I can't understand is the specific problem Mrs Le Guin brings : the whitening of the characters. Why was it necessary ? From what I read in her article, it's as stupid as if they tried to whitening the cast of "Roots: the next generation" (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078678/).