Listening to all the comments today in class, I realize that there is so much more going on in a film than I had ever realized.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m referring to the technical aspects of actually making the film, e.g. the juxtaposition of the Elvis archetype that we discussed with Sanjuro (sp?), the lighting effects in the temple and the huge amount of forethought that has to go into planning the ‘look’ of a scene.\u00c2\u00a0 Previously, I had always exalted the written word above the film because it always appeared to me as a more cerebral endeavor.\u00c2\u00a0 While I still prefer the written word over the production of\u00c2\u00a0a film, I now have a new respect for filmmakers.<\/p>\n
ADAPTATION and POLLUTION<\/strong><\/p>\n Going in a somewhat different direction, I am also intrigued by the concept of books\/novels undergoing the metamorphisis from the written word to that of a film.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m talking about the term ‘adaptation’ that we have talked a little about in class.\u00c2\u00a0 The online version of the OED gives definition 2a of the word as “To alter or modify so as to fit for a new use<\/em>. “\u00c2\u00a0 As a class, we are now modifying films for our own educational use.\u00c2\u00a0 Another sense of ‘adaptation’ is to make suitable.\u00c2\u00a0 This also poses an interesting question.\u00c2\u00a0 Namely, can one alter or change or tweek a film enough to make it suitable to them?\u00c2\u00a0 Should it even be the\u00c2\u00a0film’s responsibility to ‘adapt’ to me, or to\u00c2\u00a0‘suit’ my needs?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I feel that when I make the condition necessary in order to “get anything out of a film,” I am\u00c2\u00a0polluting it with my own requirements.\u00c2\u00a0 This\u00c2\u00a0reads as selfish to me.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder how many authors,\u00c2\u00a0novelists, directors and filmmakers feel that their works have been a victim of pollution.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Listening to all the comments today in class, I realize that there is so much more going on in a film than I had ever realized.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m referring to the technical aspects of actually making the film, e.g. the juxtaposition of the Elvis archetype that we discussed with Sanjuro (sp?), the lighting effects in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adaptation","category-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}