Re: RARA-AVIS: Poodle Springs
Words from the Monastery (jackechs@erols.com)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:43:22 -0400
I liked it ... was pleasantly surprised actually and will most
likely either
tape it or watch it when it repeats tomorrow night ... is it
Marlowe? Eh, it
could be ... at least one way he could have turned out. I
haven't read the
novel version and since I never expect nor should anyone expect
for that
matter that a movie adaptation be the same as the book it
doesn't bother
me. I read the book adaptations of both the movies SEVEN and
TWELVE MONKEYS
... these were written after the fact (using the script) and
they didn't
follow the movie either on little things. I've started reading
how-to books
on screen writing and they are very specific about the fact
that it
shouldn't be the same ... no real logical reason other than the
concept that
it can't be down the same way ... no shit ... there are
differences which
you expect, but changing a character from being married in
their back story
to not being married (in the case of SEVEN) is totally
pointless.
Frank A. Salamone wrote:
> Has anyone else seen the mutilated version of Poodle
Springs that HBO
> put out? I had been looking forward with great
anticipation for a
> few months. I had to re-read the book to get the bad
taste out of my
> mouth. Why did they change Linda Loring's character?
Why screw up the
> plot? Oh, well, I hope Parker made some cash out of
it.
--
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Anthony
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