Random Friday
I finished reading Dracula at last. It was longer than I thought – or maybe it took me longer than expected because of the sometimes unreadable (for me) English (when Mr. Stoker tried to render the lower classes speech, I couldn’t really follow it and Van Helsing’s broken English was sometimes irritating)… It’s… interesting! Dated, but interesting.
I’ve read somewhere that Bram Stoker knew nothing of Vlad the Impaler, and in fact he doesn’t really mention the origin of Dracula. And Mina is faithful to her husband – unlike the movie version, which seemed to be a summary of the summary of the book.
I’m kinda baffled at how things were changed in the movie. I guess the screenwriter took advantage of the fact that the writer couldn’t sue him, since he was already dead (much like the guy who wrote Troy based on Homer’s work – I wonder if dead authors who get rewritten in Hollywood haunt those darn screenwriters! :D At least Shakespeare wrote plays that are easier to turn into movies… sort of…)! ;)
Speaking of more vampires, let’s move to sort of Art Friday. Here’s a preview of half the strip about the Desi vampire… As you can see he doesn’t even have a name here (and even the one I’d found will need to be changed, so… Whatsisname is just fine for now! ;) Bad author, I know).
Yes, I’m aware it’s a very silly joke – much like this one… Hopefully this weekend I’ll have time to go back to more serious drawing! ;) Unless I get to writing the above, that is. I’m thinking since I’m reading about vampires, I might as well get done with the vampire stories (I still need to finish Interview with the Vampire that I interrupted at the beginning of part 3 when I headed for London).
Speaking of artists, I’ve discovered this amazing digital painter who also has her own project – musical, not painted. May her music help heal other people from depression…
Also, if you’d like to support my cover artist and webmaster Silvano Beltramo on Patreon, here is his page. I know that eventually I’ll sign up myself, but I haven’t decided yet how to sign up (as author/which pen name or as publisher?)…
Have a great weekend!
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They do that a lot - change things in movie versions of books, I mean. They can get away with it even with living authors, because they only say the movie is "based on" the book. In some cases - like the sixth Harry Potter movie - they focus so much on adding more to the sub plot that the main plot points are lost in what should have just been sub plot put in for character development, which I hate, and which ruins the movie for me. In other cases, their changes actually improve it, and you get more pleasure from watching the movie than you did from reading the book.
Victoria wrote: "They do that a lot - change things in movie versions of books, I mean. They can get away with it even with living authors, because they only say the movie is "based on" the book. In some cases - ..."Sometimes the author herself writes the screenplay (like Interview with the Vampire - Ann Rice herself rewrote it for the screen) and that's why I learned screenwriting, just in case Hollywood comes a-callin! ;)
Yes, sometimes they do, but more often than not it's someone else who does it. This wouldn't be so bad, but quite often the author is so amazed at being able to have their book made in to a movie that they'll agree to almost any change people suggest, as long as it gets the movie made.I don't blame you for making a point of learning how to do it yourself; more chance of your movie being an accurate representation of the book that way.
