Sentences with phrase «words about an adaptation»
Many have to refuse many things from those which were reached by them in their former life and start from nothing... A few words about an adaptation problem.
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Marc Forster has signed up to direct an adaptation of World War Z, a bestselling novel about flesh - eating zombies who destroy the word
Yes, there is reasonable cause for pessimism about remakes / adaptations / updates / re - imaginings / whatever buzz - word the marketing department decides to use to describe the latest version of a work.
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Ian McEwan's 2007 novella On Chesil Beach, about a young couple's disastrous honeymoon in southern England circa 1962, presents a classic adaptation problem: The book runs less than 40,000 words, the prose largely examines the characters» interiority, and the majority of the action takes place over the course of an...
The Subject: «The Book Thief,» the big - screen adaptation of the international best - seller by Markus Zusak about an illiterate girl who grows to understand the importance of words after being sent to live in a small town in Germany that is falling increasingly under the thrall of Adolph Hitler.
Testament of Youth (PG - 13 for mature themes and disturbing images) Adaptation of Vera Brittain's (Alicia Vikander) coming - of - age memoir recounting her service as a nurse in London during World War I while awaiting word about the fate of her brother (Taron Egerton) and fiance (Kit Harington) fighting on the front lines.
First, a word about the music: The songs are by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, a fast - rising team who wrote lyrics for the tunes in La La Land; they composed the charmingly retro score for the musical adaptation of A Christmas Story and penned the affecting emo balladry in the Tony - winning Broadway smash, Dear Evan Hansen.
Dorian Gray is one of those book adaptations that comes along and you are unsure what good points you can make about the movie and which words of praise really belong to the source novel.
The kind words aren't only for Giamatti: Dustin Hoffman's terrific comic - relief turn as Giamatti's shabby cop dad is declared «one of his tastiest performances in years» by Screen Daily's Lee Marshall, whose mixed - to - positive review shares Chang's reservations about the adaptation.
It's an interesting twist of fate for a novelist who once wrote, upon hearing the soundtrack to the film adaptation of his book About a Boy, «Seeing one's words converted into Hollywood cash is gratifying in all sorts of ways, but it really can not compare to the experience of hearing them converted into music: for someone who has to write books because he can not write songs, the idea that a book might somehow produce a song is embarrassingly thrilling.»
Also, think hard about what falls under the anodyne word «adaptation».