Solicitr
Mithlond
Jun 7 2020, 4:13pm
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It was precisely Eco's intention, in writing The Name of the Rose, to demonstrate that a mere "genre", the detective story, could nonetheless be the vehicle of very serious literature indeed.
Which in turn leads back to the topic of screen adaptations, at least Hollywood's: the film adaptation of NR was a mere detective story with all the serious content stripped out (indeed, at one point, ridiculed). This is a risk in adapting any 'crossover' or 'hybrid' novel-- like The Lord of the Rings. Since it's possible to read it as a mere adventure yarn and nothing more, it is possible - indeed a near-certainty - for any screen adaptation to be a mere adventure yarn and nothing more.
(This post was edited by Solicitr on Jun 7 2020, 4:17pm)
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