Ooh, thank you! I wonder why it is that cinematic adaptations go so wrong? The radio ones are brilliant – well, those two at least; I heard a brain-melting one, of one of his other books, but it was from the era when radio drama was just like that – and TV is just adding pictures, so...? Maybe they're too talky? There is a lot of philosophy ... but the radio adaptations do a good job of putting the philosophy in the emotional world of the characters.
Thank you for your help, though!
Re: too dark – Obviously they're no darker than a lot of what's on TV already, but they may be too dark for the Historical Novel Adaptation audience, who want to believe in the constructs of Society, especially romanticised 19thC Society, and not have them punctured or exposed or seen through in any way. It made me laugh, the hand-wringing in the animation industry over things that were considered 'dark', usually things that simply admitted the world was an unpleasant place sometimes – no, no, my friends, The Idiot is dark! You don't know dark.
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Date: 2020-03-31 10:22 pm (UTC)Thank you for your help, though!
Re: too dark – Obviously they're no darker than a lot of what's on TV already, but they may be too dark for the Historical Novel Adaptation audience, who want to believe in the constructs of Society, especially romanticised 19thC Society, and not have them punctured or exposed or seen through in any way. It made me laugh, the hand-wringing in the animation industry over things that were considered 'dark', usually things that simply admitted the world was an unpleasant place sometimes – no, no, my friends, The Idiot is dark! You don't know dark.