Haiku: In Between Life and Death

Walking along the dirt path
Through the vines of the Jungle ahead
Lay Death Rattling her tail

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6 Word Memoirs

Pins Sharp.  Heart Soft.  Why Not?

Amadeus Amadeus..Amadeus!

Between the Screenplay and the film, Amadeus is a very close adaptation and stays very true to it's story spine.  The main characters and major events parallel between novel and film.  Some minor elements are dropped but were necessary to drop in order to carry along the audience to prevent confusion.

This adaptation is a transposition, for it remains faithful enough and illustrates to the best of its ability the intentions of the text's author.

Overall Amadeus parallels between novel and film.  The story, the characters, and the themes remain intact.  The only difference is the elements added or dropped to assist the audience.

The Darkest of Knights

The Dark Knight is a loose adaptation of the graphic novels, Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: The Killing Joke. The director keeps the same major theme of Batman the only thing that they changed dramatically was how many characters, as in villains, were present per movie.  They also added in a lot of different elements such as the different mob bosses and venturing to China.  I believe that this film is a mixture of a transposition and an analogy.  It illustrates to the best of its ability the intentions of the text but they change and add a lot of different scenes and elements within to the film.

Though they somewhat stay true to the graphic novels, I believe that the director of The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, and the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises separated the characters into the different movies so that our Protagonist along with viewers wouldn't get completely lost in the mayhem that is Gotham City.

Dreaming of Electric Sheep

The film Blade Runner is an intermediate adaptation of the novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.  The general idea of novel and some of the major themes remain present, the film just changes certain aspects so that the story being told by the film remains fluid and can sustain the allotted time given. For example, Rachel as a love interest of Rick gives the story more drama and we now have someone Rick can show emotion to so that the viewer is conflicted as to whether he is a replicant or not. While on the novel side Rick is married and has an affair with Rachael.  Yes, the drama remains but in a film aspect you can't do everything with a voice over and Rachael being a main character helped bring along and round out the rough edges of creating the novel into a film. 

Given that they attempted to remain close enough to the themes and kept the plot line of the novel, I would say the adaptation is a transposition.  The adaptation is set in a different city and a different year but enough of the original material remains to not completely categorize it as an analogy.  The screenwriters only took out enough of the novel to make a concrete and cohesive film without making it too complicated, ie. adding in Mercerism concept or the theme of empathy itself.  The film itself is journey based, Rick must do these things and hunt down these people to find serenity within himself and complete his journey.  To add in Rick wanting an animal to feel human would be like adding a sub-journey into the main journey and within this the audience would become sidetracked and confused.

I believe that given the base material, the filmmaker and the screenwriters did an amazing job with turning the novel Do Android's Dream Of Electric Sheep into the film Blade Runner.  They did not create their brand new story spine but instead broke it down and extracted the main elements of the story and gave it depth and meaning into a complicated world of film. Overall the creators of the adaptation did an amazing job of turning a truly complex and deep story into a workable and watchable film.