![]() ![]() But these were born with souls and the BBC production factory rips that soul out and replaces it with what they believe is modern storytelling that works or at least brings viewers back. "Bleak House," "Middlemarch," "Pride and Prejudice" are all successful entertainments in their TeeVee incarnations with amusing characters. If they start with a book that has depth, they trammel all the important achievements of the author. If the project is a BBC production, I am universally disappointed. How the adapters succeed or fail in working with the narrative tricks, tells me a lot about film works, how my mind works, and to some extent how I make stories about how the world works. Those that adapt Christie and the Holmes stories particularly interest because they are film adaptations of something that works. ![]() ![]() I'm particularly attracted to these because I believe they are a sort of sketchpad for experiments in storytelling, how narrative can be boogered around to challenge and engage us. I see a lot of movies, and many of them are mysteries, or advertise themselves so. ![]()
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