I have chosen Wuthering Heights (ITV Adaptation and Film), Jekyll (BBC Adaptation) and Sherlock (BBC Adaptation).
The reason why I have chosen to look at these adaptation is because two of them have been adapted to modern day, enabling me to discuss the topic from my question about how a story will become something new and different but will keep the same traits from the original. The third program has been adapted close to the original text, and I thought that this would be good to look at in contrast with the others.
I have found an interesting quote which I would like to talk about in my essay too. I found this really interesting and also looks at adaptation in both a positive and negative light in reference to the world today.
‘Traditionally, people have been
adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it
simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even
come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we
live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.’
Howard Gordon – American Writer
Good work - great choices. I think the quote you have is really important - it does seem that books are indeed produced with a view to selling on movie rights and that is even affecting the way in which people write and the process of getting a book commissioned.
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