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re: The whole "uncinematic" thing

Posted by:	Chazwaza 06:56 am EDT 08/17/14
In reply to:	re: The whole "uncinematic" thing - AlanScott 06:50 pm EDT 08/16/14

And rightly so, yes. And it's not just this movie... this happens with plays being turned into movies quite often, and did more when more were adapted. A screenwriter who mostly just takes the majority of the play's dialogue and the plot, characters and how they are illustrated, etc, and puts them in screenplay format and sometimes "opens" the play up gets credit as the sole script writer, and nominated for "best adapted screenplay" as if they took a novel and created, out of 400 pages of descriptive prose, a 120 page screenplay fit to be shot.... the idea that re-imagining and already written script for the cinema is on par, to the Academy's eyes, with creating a new script out of a book, is beyond my understanding and would INCENSE me if I were a screenwriter adapting a book or a playwright whose play was adapted by someone else.

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