Comments on: Adaptation & Appropriation

By: kim from hiraeth

kim from hiraeth — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:19:31 +0000

I’m surprised no one has mentioned The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series.

By: pgepps

pgepps — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:30:36 +0000

Well, there are the multiple Shakespeare adaptations, especially multiple versions of Hamlet and Richard III and Othello to compare.

Austen’s Emma becoming Clueless was my favorite example, already taken.

Iliad becoming Troy (or “if Iliad had actually been only about Achilles” is a pretty good one.

A more subtle example, and my other favorite movie beside the Terminator movies (and in stark contrast to them), would be Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and the Anthony Hopkins / Emma Thompson movie drawn from it, coincidentally titled The Remains of the Day. The two are both brilliant, and quite different.

When one gets down to the multiple adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, of course, the possibilities begin to spiral out of control….

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:40:44 +0000

Emma - Clueless
Uh…. I am drawing a blank on anything else… der.

By: Radagast

Radagast — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:19:49 +0000

Glad to see you back!

… and with a fresh new look!

I’m with you on #2 and #4.

By: John Dekker

John Dekker — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:09:58 +0000

Oh, there are so many: Pride and Prejudice O (Othello) Hamlet And my favouritest of them all: Richard III