At 03:43 PM 16/07/2004 -0400, Mark Sullivan wrote:
> Why are so few of the books we discuss here
made
>into films?
I think it is because writers are now writer-directors.
Norman Jewison declared some time ago that film is the
literature of the twentieth century, and he has been
particularly influential among young Canadians
(and even some older ones) with literary ambitions. If
they've an interest in seeing their work on the screen,
Canuck writers go to the school Jewison started in Toronto.
They write their own original material, or work in
collaboration with film makers met there.
I suspect this is true in the "independent" film scene
outside Canada as well, and the independents are eventually
institutionalized by Hollywood. I mean, the rows of little
cubby-holes each containing a human-like form bent boozily
over a novel and an Underwood was a feature of the long gone
studio system, no?
And I think it's generational. I'm willing to bet that the
majority of Rara Avians, with our attachment to the printed
text, are north of 40 years old. The exciting new film makers
will be south of that ugly divide. I'm making
generalizations, of course, but so did your original
observation.
Sorry if I've depressed anyone at the start of an otherwise
sunny summer weekend.
Soon to be greeting at a Wal-Mart near you, Kerry
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