Trainspotting ...
It is unavoidable that a book and a film of the same story will have some dissimilarities, if only because they are two distinct media with two different audiences. The book and movie I have chosen is Trainspotting one of my all time favourites.
In the movie the plot is linear in the main, where as in the book the time line is not as straightforward. In fact, the book is more a collection of sometimes very dark short stories with the different storylines loosely linked. However, the film plot is tied together far more tightly, and overall is a fairly traditional narrative structure. The movie is not anywhere as near as dark as the book.
Although much of the witty dialogue that peppers the movie script comes directly from the pen of Irvine Welsh, it is used in different scenes that they appear in the novel. For example the 'it's shite being Scottish' speech takes place in the pub where Begbie tosses the pint glass into the crowd below, in the movie this monologue takes place when the boys head out to the countryside for the day ... (this bit of the movie always did bother me, why were they out in the country? dinnae makes sense, likesay.)
It is unavoidable that a book and a film of the same story will have some dissimilarities, if only because they are two distinct media with two different audiences. The book and movie I have chosen is Trainspotting one of my all time favourites.
In the movie the plot is linear in the main, where as in the book the time line is not as straightforward. In fact, the book is more a collection of sometimes very dark short stories with the different storylines loosely linked. However, the film plot is tied together far more tightly, and overall is a fairly traditional narrative structure. The movie is not anywhere as near as dark as the book.
Although much of the witty dialogue that peppers the movie script comes directly from the pen of Irvine Welsh, it is used in different scenes that they appear in the novel. For example the 'it's shite being Scottish' speech takes place in the pub where Begbie tosses the pint glass into the crowd below, in the movie this monologue takes place when the boys head out to the countryside for the day ... (this bit of the movie always did bother me, why were they out in the country? dinnae makes sense, likesay.)
With music, for me, it is all about the songs; as your average A&R man will tell u. Likewise with movies or literature, its all about the story. A good plot is imperative, regardless of the medium. And in this particular case of adaptation, I would so far as saying that the film ever surpasses the original work and stands on its own two feet as a genuine work of art, regardl
2 comments:
good analysis and commentary. did the entry get cut off at the end? (it looks like it finishes with "regardl")
yeah, looks like it ... but i can't remember what my point was now!!
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