MEMBER BLOG TAG: adaptation
| Friday, April 30, 2010 7:12AM | | | | PEN World Voices Adaptation | Tags: PEN World Voices, Adaptation, Film, Prose, Djian, Toussaint, Gifford, Price
| | | | When you write a book, says Francine Prose, and you get a review, there's always that second or third paragraph where they give the plot summary. And you read it and say, How did anyone ever think this is what the book was about? So when a movie is made from your novel, it's like seeing that paragraph blown up really big.
There are five novelists on the stage, all with experience of having books turned into films.
When I wrote the book that became "Betty Blue," says Philippe Djian, I wanted to write about a kid who scribbles away in his corner, who fills notebook after notebook wityh his writing, and who feels no need to take it any further. Writing is enough for him. But... | | | | | |
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