Poseidon

innerSpaceman · 05-17-2006, 07:01 PM

Um, do I have go and change the title of this thread?

And, like Alex, I'm still awaiting the decent adaptations of The Two Towers and The Return of the King to go with the fabulous film version of The Fellowship of the Ring.

But let's just assume characters simply cannot be as fleshed out in a movie as in a novel. Would the readers of the Poseidon Adventure novel agree that all the characters were well-represented in the original movie?

I haven't read the novel in over 35 years, but my impression - - as an impressionable 12 year old - - was that the movie did a damn good job of conveying everything that needed to be conveyed about those characters. This may be easier to achieve when dealing with action - in either book or movie form - that takes place over a mere few hours.

05-17-2006, 07:01 PM	#32
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Um, do I have go and change the title of this thread? And, like Alex, I'm still awaiting the decent adaptations of The Two Towers and The Return of the King to go with the fabulous film version of The Fellowship of the Ring. But let's just assume characters simply cannot be as fleshed out in a movie as in a novel. Would the readers of the Poseidon Adventure novel agree that all the characters were well-represented in the original movie? I haven't read the novel in over 35 years, but my impression - - as an impressionable 12 year old - - was that the movie did a damn good job of conveying everything that needed to be conveyed about those characters. This may be easier to achieve when dealing with action - in either book or movie form - that takes place over a mere few hours.
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