Re: List of books

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In a message dated 12/12/99 3:49:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, Smmrs@aol.com 
writes:

<< anyone who reads the book and then sees the movie will realize just how 
much 
 Spike Lee ruined the great text. He omitted one significant scene in the 
book 
 (Jaime) and distorted the rest. Well, Ive alwats looked at him as an amateur 
 film maker and that movie affirmed it for me.
 
 thank ye
  >>

The only Spike Lee film I've seen is Poetic Justice, and I thought he did a 
mighty fine job of storytelling there -- the voyage narrative very nicely 
commenting on different facets of Black America. 

Course, any transition from book to film is entirely another matter.  I've 
never seen one satisfactorily done.  Books are too condensed ---

I just read some criticism about Beckett in which "time" in novels is 
contrasted with "time" on stage plays.  The point was that time is somewhat 
"plastic" in novels.  You can mess with it.  Meanwhile, "time" on stage is 
pretty close to "real time" or the audience doesn't buy it too well.  That's 
probably the biggest problem with transitioning from book to film.  You 
either have to cut at lot out, or if you do try to include a little bit of 
everything you do a patch job.

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