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Adaptations will always include changes - unavoidable with different mediums.:
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Eruonen
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Dec 9 2024, 4:49am
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Adaptations will always include changes - unavoidable with different mediums.
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I just think turning a well known literary character into something completely different for a film adaptation is fraught with disaster.
For example, if there was an adaptation of The Life of Queen Elizabeth I and features her as leading her navy at sea with Sir Francis Drake as a swashbuckling Queen with a cutlas strapped on her hip and a knife held in her teeth as she climbs up an enemy ship mast, cuts down the Spanish flag and hoists the Royal Standard in victory....the viewer who is familiar with her life may be disappointed.
Or, she is with Drake in the Caribbean and learns of the impending Spanish Armada. She leaps into the sea and swims back to England to rally her people. She encounters a sea turtle who tows her across the ocean and she emerges from the English Channel beneath the white cliffs of Dover and leads the English army against the Spanish who landed near Cornwall and routed them.
This may make for an entertaining film but is it an acceptable historical adaptation of the Life of Queen Elizabeth I?
Anyway, there was a bad adaptation of Cleopatra in the mini series Queen Cleopatra. Similar criticism for The Woman King.
"Many historians have criticized the movie for not showing an accurate depiction of the Kingdom of Dahomey and King Ghezo in relation to the slave trade. In reality, he was actually a notorious slave trader that would utilize the Agojie during raids to capture and sell enemies, and continued the practice for the most part until his death in the mid 1800’s.
Director
Gina Prince-Bythewood – never claimed it to be a fully accurate depiction, rather relying on the distortion of some history in order to provide adequate entertainment.
“Most of the story is fictionalized. It has to be,” Viola Davis said."
https://granitebaytoday.org/...cas-amazon-warriors/
I have not seen the film but is seems like the lead female warrior General Nanisca was recognizable as a character similar to the historical warriors.
"Is The Woman King based on a true story?
In short, yes, but with extensive dramatic license. Though the broad strokes of the film are historically accurate, the majority of its characters are fictional, including Davis’ Nanisca and Thuso Mbedu’s Nawi, a young warrior-in-training. (Nanisca and Nawi share names with documented members of the Agojie but are not exact mirrors of these women.)"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/...e-amazons-180980750/
So, it all comes down to how well the book was adapted...some are good and some are bad (especially if both factually wrong and lacking entertainment). Being entertaining can save an adaptation from box office failure.
(This post was edited by Eruonen on Dec 9 2024, 4:50am)
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