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I'm very keen. adaptations of other people's work, too. i got fascinated by the adaptation process, so i think that'd be a really interesting task. i would happily write original screenplays as well. i think it's become one of my favorite genres.
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I'm Very Keen. Adaptations Of Other People's

Emma Donoghue
I'm very keen. adaptations of other people's work, too. i got fascinated by the adaptation process, so i think that'd be a really interesting task. i would happily write original screenplays as well. i think it's become one of my favorite genres.
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I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. what i still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. that is, "there is literary fiction, and then there are lesser genres." i'm much more clear on the idea that literary fiction is itself a genre. it is not above other genres. it is down there in the muck with all the other genres, and it's doing the wonderful things that it does, but to give it a y-axis, to make it high and low, just seems absurd. i stand by that.
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I think now that i've tried directing, i'm not interested in doing adaptations anymore. i could do an adaptation of someone else's work that i would write, but the idea of taking someone else's material entirely doesn't interest me. one of the things that i found really helpful, at least in my mind - and i've never discussed this with the actors or with the people i work with - is that being a neophyte in directing, i feel like i have a kind of authority simply because i'm the writer as well.
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The landscape of cinema is not original. not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. so it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.
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I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. there are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. but the vast majority of them are pointless.
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Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....in the end, i'm not a fan of labels. i think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.
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I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. in those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. having said that, i'd say all the adaptations i've done are quite faithful to the original... you have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. all those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. but films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.
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