One of the best examples of the power in a soundtrack is Christopher Nolan's newest Film; Dunkirk. I had the pleasure of watching this Film in IMAX 70MM and it is an absolutely fantastic experience, while I won't go into detail because I don't want to spoil it; this is the perfect example of how to use music in film. Christopher Nolan is quite well known for having mostly good scripts that occasionally take a nosedive into heavy handedness and occasionally just really bad dialogue. Whether it's Cobb's wife being named Mal, which is latin for bad or evil. Some of interstellar's dialogue being far too on the nose and some of Batman's dialogue coming right out of a Pete Holmes skit.(show all). Dunkirk really departs from Nolan's past films, in
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There is an understanding of source material and a willingness to omit things from the source material in order to make the final product more compact. They don't have scenes for the sake of pleasing fans, they always have a direct purpose. I've always found the Nixon scenes in Watchmen to be far too removed from the rest of the story to be enjoyable, I know those scenes where in the comics, but there were more of them and they were more developed. Is there any information in these scenes that we could not have gleaned from somewhere else? Could the information have more emotional impact or connection to the characters if it came from another source? Most filmmakers would avoid using Nixon because his makeup job is pretty distracting, Nixon is important to the watchmen universe for sure, but how important is he to your adaptation of the watchmen …show more content…
Or will it depart from the source material so much that faithful fans will find it too removed from the Death Note Universe to even be considered part of its fiction? I hope that it lands anywhere between the %70 and %30 mark, because that really is the golden area for adaptations. I hope that Light isn't the same character, because if he was, I could go watch the show instead. I hope Ryuk is done differently, but keeps his core personality. With the most recent teaser we can see a number of differences. Ryuk tempts Light into using the notebook, in the show this isn't something the Shinigami are allowed to do. In the show, Light wouldn't kill anyone close to him at first because he was being cautious, in the Film his first kill is a bully right outside the window. Don't let these differences define your opinion on the film, watch the whole thing and then decide how you feel about the changes. An adaptation that follows too closely in the footsteps of its source material will be pointless, one that departs to much can't be said to be an adaptation at all. But we must allow for Directors to take risks, otherwise we'll be left with direct adaptations. Sure, sometimes you get watchmen and yet other times you get World War Z, which has so little in common with the book; the author said "QUOTE". Both of these two sides make terrible
There is an understanding of source material and a willingness to omit things from the source material in order to make the final product more compact. They don't have scenes for the sake of pleasing fans, they always have a direct purpose. I've always found the Nixon scenes in Watchmen to be far too removed from the rest of the story to be enjoyable, I know those scenes where in the comics, but there were more of them and they were more developed. Is there any information in these scenes that we could not have gleaned from somewhere else? Could the information have more emotional impact or connection to the characters if it came from another source? Most filmmakers would avoid using Nixon because his makeup job is pretty distracting, Nixon is important to the watchmen universe for sure, but how important is he to your adaptation of the watchmen …show more content…
Or will it depart from the source material so much that faithful fans will find it too removed from the Death Note Universe to even be considered part of its fiction? I hope that it lands anywhere between the %70 and %30 mark, because that really is the golden area for adaptations. I hope that Light isn't the same character, because if he was, I could go watch the show instead. I hope Ryuk is done differently, but keeps his core personality. With the most recent teaser we can see a number of differences. Ryuk tempts Light into using the notebook, in the show this isn't something the Shinigami are allowed to do. In the show, Light wouldn't kill anyone close to him at first because he was being cautious, in the Film his first kill is a bully right outside the window. Don't let these differences define your opinion on the film, watch the whole thing and then decide how you feel about the changes. An adaptation that follows too closely in the footsteps of its source material will be pointless, one that departs to much can't be said to be an adaptation at all. But we must allow for Directors to take risks, otherwise we'll be left with direct adaptations. Sure, sometimes you get watchmen and yet other times you get World War Z, which has so little in common with the book; the author said "QUOTE". Both of these two sides make terrible