On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 23:55 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > I think I may have found the reason why so many Hollywood movies are so > different from the books. > > In the preface of Cyrus Brady's book Secret Service, he has this to say: > > Once upon a time a novel of mine was turned into a play. The > dramatist who prepared the story for stage production sent me a > copy of his efforts toward that end. About the only point of > resemblance between his production and mine was the fact that > they both bore the same title, the hero in each had the same > name, and the action in both cases took place on this earth. > > I was a young author then, and timid. I ventured humbly to > enquire why the drama differed so entirely from the novel; and > this ingenious, I might almost say ingenuous, explanation was > vouchsafed me: > “Well, to tell you the truth, after I had read a chapter or two > of your book, I lost it, and I just wrote the play from my own > imagination.” > > :-) > > BTW, you can read the book online or download it as an ebook yourself at: > http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44659 >
Crumb killed Fritz after it was made into a film by Bakshi. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
