| re: The Whale, stage vs screen |
| Last Edit: Delvino 07:20 pm EST 01/26/23 |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:16 pm EST 01/26/23 |
| In reply to: re: The Whale, stage vs screen - WaymanWong 07:01 pm EST 01/26/23 |
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Two people I know blame Aronofsky for diminishing the integrity of the play. I have a copy of the published text and when I returned from the cinema, checked for how closely the movie adheres. It’s ostensibly the filmed play, changing out Mormonism for a faux religion proxy. Rather than undercut the play’s strengths, the film perhaps exposes its flaws.
As a voting member of the WGA I was relieved the adapted screenplay failed to receive nominations among writers in both the union and Academy, the second group a subcategory of the larger pool. The inherent level of artifice and exploitation of suffering did not engage writers. The film is a comeback story for an actor. |
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