Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
It's difficult for a TV adaptation of a novel to be faithful to the original simply due to time constraints: almost inevitably something will be left out which annoys a fan of the original novel. In this regard, short stories often make a better basis for adaptation than a novel, I think.
|
Not to mention budget, POV, and logistic constraints. Additional characters are often needed to give the main characters a sounding board for ideas and concepts that would have easily been accomplished via internal dialog in the books. Books are simply not movies (or TV shows). Drastic changes are quite often
required to be successful. Fans, however, are often unrealistic and want an impossible carbon-copy of the original.
I don't know if short stories make
better movie and tv shows
per se. I just think they tend to piss off less of the hardcore fans.
