Book Club on Sidechat | With all the discourse about whether or not it’s important for book to screen adaptions to be accurate, I wanted to put my own two cents in and say reading is supposed to be universalizing and readers open minded, that being said….

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With all the discourse about whether or not it’s important for book to screen adaptions to be accurate, I wanted to put my own two cents in and say reading is supposed to be universalizing and readers open minded, that being said….

Anonymous 1d

I’m writing my own book and if it ever grows wildly successful and developed into film I would like the characters to mostly be book accurate, but can accept if they aren’t. Most authors advocate and/or startup the works of auctioning or suggesting characters. And I’d be hands on. Do with that what you will

Anonymous 1d

Honestly I haven’t talked much about this with anyone so I don’t know if it’s a hot take, but I don’t really see the point of an adaptation if it’s exactly the same. And I don’t care whos cast, even if they’re completely different than described, as long as they embody the character. Like Annabeth from pjo, I think her show actress is great. As long as the core/message of the story is the same I consider it a successful adaptation. I mean its called an adaptation anyway, not a recreation.

Anonymous 1d

it one matters if the author’s wishes are being followed & if it’s actually good lol, how tf is this a real discourse 💀

Anonymous 3h

Sometimes what makes a movie good and what makes a book good are very different, and keeping if 100% book accurate would be detrimental to the movie. It’s a matter of following the spirit, not the letter

Anonymous

OP 1d

Would it depend on which parts are book accurate? Like would you care more about a movie changing major character personalities/traits as opposed to physical qualities?

Anonymous

#1 1d

If their characteristics change I would be more upset because it’s a disconnect for those that read the book (if the book is successful). Looks change, it happens. But the way I’m writing the book I go in depth about their phenotypes and the archetype which kind’ve follows that “image”

Anonymous

#2 1d

It’s good to hear other perspectives. But some things should be book/animation accurate, like the casting princess and the frog. Is this a polarizing take? But she has to be from New Orleans, a young woman and be black to encapsulate the story of making your dreams come true amidst adversity. Also biopics, shouldn’t those be accurate? I’m not disagreeing with you though, seems like you’re discussing mere fiction where the “look” isn’t too important

Anonymous

OP 1d

I haven’t actually read the princess in the frog, I’ve heard of the Disney movie but haven’t seen that either so I’m not sure how important character appearance is to the plot, but I’ll give you that in some cases it may be detrimental to not cast a certain way, especially in nonfiction. My apologies if I misunderstood your statement, I happen to only read “mere fiction” and thought that’s what you were referring to after saying you were creating characters for a book

Anonymous

#3 1d

some books are not meant to be 1-to-1 adapted to television, and a lot of producers will do shit that makes the story substantially worse (like the random, unnecessary racism in Shadow & Bone that wasn’t present in the books)