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re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long)

Posted by: LegitOnce 07:08 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long) - AlanScott 04:39 am EDT 03/18/14
This is maybe a bit philosophical, but the details you so superbly pinpoint remind me of something David O. Selznick said specifically about the task of adapting Gone With the Wind into aa screenplay, but I think it applies to any sort of adaptation:

"I have learned to avoid trying to improve on success. One never knows what chemicals have gone to make up something that has appealed to millions of people, and how many seeming faults of construction have been part of the whole, and how much the bal­ance would be offset by making changes that we in our innocence, or even in our ability, consider wrong."

The rather minor plot detail about the understudy you mention I think is an example of a "chemical" in the Selznickian sense; the slight change that is made for the stage musical really robs the moment of its wit and it becomes only a plot point.


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