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Post by vicky on Nov 29, 2019 18:35:42 GMT
Taking an original story,adapting it to a different time, place and - crucially imo - calling it by a different title is perfectly acceptable. Keeping elements of someone else's work, using their original title, but altering other things, as seems to have been done here, is a very different thing. Can the "adapters" who do this kind of thing produce original stories of their own I wonder?
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Post by yankee on Nov 29, 2019 18:46:14 GMT
Well said Vicky!
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Post by yankee on Nov 29, 2019 18:49:14 GMT
When Gus Van Zandt did a shot by shot remake of Psycho it was said to be an homage to Hitchcock, just in color and with a bit more graphic violence.
Wrong
An homage to Hitchcock is remastering the original print and music and rereleasing it to cinemas to show on the big screen.
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Post by marion on Dec 1, 2019 22:12:57 GMT
Well I thought this fizzled out like a damp squib. Demelza saved the day with Ogilvy making some serum which allowed her to grow a plant, and the sun seemed to come through at the end. But other than that I couldn't see how she had managed to stay pregnant and have a healthy child with all this going on and no apparent water source let alone food. I didn't see many Martians either. The "we deserved it for colonising other countries" speech was a bit worthy given the straits they were in at the time. And why were they called George and Amy Thing? A very odd choice of surname, or am I missing a significant point?
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Post by redls on Dec 1, 2019 22:13:41 GMT
Well! Jeff Wayne might not have followed the story completely, but he told a better story than that! OH was not impressed by the final episode at all and we wonder how many British, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian soldiers (whose counties were all empires) were cannibals … I'm beginning to think the British have been responsible for everything wrong since the end of the dinosaurs, maybe we did that too! At least Robert Carlyle's character had more sense even if I don't remember him in the book either!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2019 22:23:52 GMT
George and Amy have an interesting, true backstory. Herbert George Wells actually left his wife, who was also his cousin Isabel Mary Wells in 1894, having fallen in love with his student Amy Catherine Robbins, later known as Jane, with whom he moved to Woking. The pair had slightly less trouble getting married than their fictional counterparts, with the pair wed the following year in 1895.
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Post by yankee on Dec 1, 2019 23:40:27 GMT
I'm beginning to think the British have been responsible for everything wrong since the end of the dinosaurs, maybe we did that too! Richard Attenborough did try and fix that by creating Jurassic Park...
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Post by bethb63 on Dec 2, 2019 6:44:47 GMT
I watched the end, but I’m very glad I skipped this one.
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Post by linseed on Dec 2, 2019 9:45:28 GMT
I’ve got the second 2 episodes on my recorder, having only watched the first one. Now I’m wondering whether to bother having read all of your comments
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Post by Miranda on Dec 2, 2019 11:42:56 GMT
If it's something that Amy did to kill the Martians, then they have completely missed the point of the original story.
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Post by marion on Dec 2, 2019 14:46:31 GMT
No she didn't kill the Martians. She realised they were dying because they were eating humans, which poisoned them. Well I think that was her big discovery. She reckoned they could just wait out the Martians because they would die fairly soon, but George ( who had gone a bit delirious by then) sacrificed himself as food so she could run away. There seemed to be three Martians hanging around the Civil Service building they were hiding in, but we didn't see any more. So it was either a very localised invasion or they had died by the time she got back to Woking (again, having found no apparent source of water or food).
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Post by bidiein on Dec 2, 2019 15:03:41 GMT
2 star review in the Mail.
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Post by spinninghead on Dec 3, 2019 8:46:59 GMT
A couple of years back Channel 5 showed a recent adaptation of Crooked House. It was repeated last weekend. That didn't muck about with the source material. It was an honest faithful film adaptation. It can be done. Not everything needs to be phelpsed
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Post by spinninghead on Dec 3, 2019 8:53:55 GMT
Phelpsing - messing around with established literature, imbuing it with language not present in the original and 'action' for the sake of cheap thrills and pointless headlines
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Post by bidiein on Dec 3, 2019 9:21:17 GMT
The BBC are offering a version of Dickens A Christmas Carol this year. I hate to imagine what they have done to it.
That version of Crooked House is sublime. Faithful to the book, well cast and beautifully scripted.
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