--- Stephen Burridge <
stephen.burridge@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think "Saboteur" and "North By Northwest" are
too
> far from "The
> Thirty-Nine Steps" to be considered versions of
the
> same source material,
> even if the form of the story is roughly
similar.
No kidding. Hitchcock made the same movie over and over.
Young And Innocent is another of the innocent man on the run
films.
>
> Which indirectly leads to the issue of how
faithful
> a movie should be to the
> novel on which it's based and from which it
takes
> its title and characters
> etc.
And that is an issue that I've been tussling with. For
example, I think the book of the 39 Steps wasn't all that
great and the movie was better and at the same time, I resent
what Hitchcock did to Strangers On A Train, The Secret Agent
and The Lodger just to name three. On the other hand,
Kurosawa's adaptation of McBain's King's Ransom isn't true to
the story but I believe it's true to the 87th Precinct
series. It is better than the book. I don't think there's a
hard and fast rule since films are sometimes better than the
books even if they violate the original premise. At least,
that's how I feel right now.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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