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Posted by RobRoy on May 01, 2000 at 09:41:00 In Reply to: Re: HEY posted by Olorin on April 30, 2000 at 18:20:21:
: You are, of course, right. However, the writer of an adaptation can glean from a character's thoughts clues about what his/her actions will look like, what the setting looks like, the mood of a scene, lighting, camera angles, and other subtle things that add to the overall effect, which cannot be gleaned (usually) when filming a history. : -Olorin Why not? The writer can travel to Falkirk and get an idea of the weather. There are numerous descriptions of how the battle took place, where the armies sat, what the strategems were, who the major players were. Most of these details are also explained in a fiction text (e.g. LOTR), but the exact descriptions are often left the mind of the reader. In some ways, historical accounts can be more accurate then any individual screenwriter's reading of someone elses work. The author has in mind what occured, the conveyance through the text and the reader's interpretation can be just as correct or incorrect as the interpretation of an historical event. My contention remains that filming either history or LOTR is fraught with equal difficulty, that while some parts of LOTR are more easily interpreted then history, others are more difficult. -RobRoy
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