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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     Wayne Brown  wrote:   
   > In alt.fan.tolkien Lewis  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Or to look at it another way:  Take a group of people who all the read the   
   >>> same book, but had different reactions to it.  A particular person may   
   >>> have laughed at parts that made someone else sad, and made someone else   
   >>> angry.  Now show them the film, and each should have the same reactions,   
   >>> i.e. be amused or saddened or angered by the same things in the film as   
   >>> in the book.  In other words, the film should create the same reactions,   
   >>> convey the same message, in effect, give the same *experience* as reading   
   >>> the book, even though that experience may vary from one person to another.   
   >>   
   >> Care to give an example?   
      
   > I can't, firstly because I've never gathered a group of people and   
   > conducted such an experiment, and secondly because I don't think I've   
   > ever seen a film that really got it right.   
      
   So, to you the only possible *real* film adaptation of a work is   
   something that you've never seen in any adaptation.   
      
   I suggest it is your criteria, and not the films, that is lacking.   
      
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